Medieval doorway to left of entrance gates to the Old Vicarage and enclosing walls is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 25 September 1951. Doorway.
Medieval doorway to left of entrance gates to the Old Vicarage and enclosing walls
- WRENN ID
- narrow-lantern-plum
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 25 September 1951
- Type
- Doorway
- Address
- Medieval doorway to left of entrance gates to the Old Vicarage and enclosing walls, Llanddew, Brecon
- OS grid reference
- SO 055 307
- Coordinates
- 51.9672, -3.37645
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The structure is a medieval doorway dating from the 14th century, located to the left of the entrance gates to the Old Vicarage, along with enclosing walls. The doorway features a small pointed arch with recessed curved moulding on the jambs and arch. A moulded hoodmould is supported by a corbel on the right and a short column shaft that rises from a lower corbel on the left. To the right of the doorway, there is an attached length of dry stone wall. The wall ends with a 19th-century stone cap, which serves as the left gatepier for the entry to the former vicarage. The low enclosing walls from the 19th century are constructed of squared rock-faced grey stone and topped with stepped stone coping. A gate is positioned to the front right between two piers that have roughly pyramidal stone caps, with a modern iron gate installed.
Local climate
Medieval doorway to left of entrance gates to the Old Vicarage and enclosing walls sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,170 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2016
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