Pump Room at Park Wells is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 12 November 1980. Pump room.

Pump Room at Park Wells

WRENN ID
third-paling-bistre
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Powys
Constituency
Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
12 November 1980
Type
Pump room
Address
Pump Room at Park Wells, Cilmery
OS grid reference
SO 026 519
Coordinates
52.15733, -3.42449
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Pump Room at Park Wells is a single-storey building featuring walls of weatherboard cladding over brick sills, topped with a slate roof that includes two ridge ventilators. It has verandas on the west, south, and east sides, all covered by slate lean-to roofs. The south veranda has four roof lights.

On the south elevation, there is an 8-bay veranda with four three-light wood framed mullioned and transomed windows. The two central windows are flanked by outer windows at the ends, which are positioned beyond two doorways that have deep overlights. The right-hand doorway features double half-glazed doors with fielded panels, while the left-hand doorway has been replaced. The veranda is supported by brackets that rest on square chamfered posts.

The west gable end has a three-bay veranda, a central three-light window, and a four-panel door to the left. A louvred ventilator is located in the gable. Similarly, the east gable end also features a three-bay veranda, a louvred ventilator in the gable, and a four-panel door to the right.

Although not inspected during the recent survey, a previous inspection in 1980 noted that the interior contained two rooms. The west room is where visitors are said to have consumed the waters from pumps located alongside the north wall, and it features a boarded ceiling and walls above a brick sill.

Local climate

Pump Room at Park Wells sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,070 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% 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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