Pontithel House is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 15 December 1995. House.
Pontithel House
- WRENN ID
- quartered-portal-ash
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 15 December 1995
- Type
- House
- Address
- Pontithel House, Gwernyfed, LD3 0SA
- OS grid reference
- SO 164 366
- Coordinates
- 52.02211, -3.21879
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Pontithel House is an early 19th-century house constructed of colourwashed stone and topped with a slate roof. It has two storeys, a basement, and attics, featuring three bays. To the west gable end, there is an attached outbuilding that was converted to accommodation in the late 20th century.
The house has a central six-panelled door set within a timber pilastered doorcase, although the canopy is missing. The ground and first floors have sixteen-paned sash windows, while there is a twelve-pane sash window above the door. All windows have cambered heads and stone sills, and there are gable stacks. The attics feature windows in the gable ends.
The front garden is enclosed by railings and gates that are set on a low wall, following the slope of the ground. The railings consist of looped round-section iron bars threaded through horizontal iron flats, with stanchions topped by pointed finials. There is a central gate and a secondary gate to the left, which includes dog rails.
Local climate
Pontithel House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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