House at Soar is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 27 May 2005. House.
House at Soar
- WRENN ID
- tilted-brass-clover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 27 May 2005
- Type
- House
- Address
- House at Soar, Brecon, Trallong
- OS grid reference
- SN 971 320
- Coordinates
- 51.97733, -3.49945
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
This is a two-storey house made of rubble stone, topped with a slate roof and featuring painted rendered end stacks. It has three bays, with wide 12-pane sash windows on the upper floor and 16-pane sash windows on the lower floor, flanking a central door that is sheltered by a small hood supported by timber brackets. The door is a flush-panelled six-panel design. The window openings are adorned with purple sandstone voussoirs and slate sills. There is a basement door located to the left of the main entrance. The left end wall is rendered, while the right end wall is made of white-painted stone and includes an added outbuilding that has a steep slate monopitch roof and a white-painted rubble front with large double doors. At the rear of the house, there are two small horizontal windows situated beneath the eaves. The property has not been inspected.
Local climate
House at Soar sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,240 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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