Nant Ystalwyn is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 January 2001. House.

Nant Ystalwyn

WRENN ID
tilted-niche-blackthorn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Powys
Constituency
Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
19 January 2001
Type
House
Address
Nant Ystalwyn, Nant Y Stalwyn, Builth Wells, Llanwrtyd Wells
OS grid reference
SN 805 575
Coordinates
52.20307, -3.74963
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Nant Ystalwyn is a long, two-storey building dating from the 18th century, featuring a house on the right end and a service unit on the left. There is a small adjoining bakehouse positioned at right angles to the far left. The structure is built from rubble stone and topped with a slate roof, which has a projecting stone stack at the right end and a brick ridge stack in the center. A small skylight is present on the roof pitch.

The house on the right end has three windows, with the central openings slightly offset to the right. The entrance features a half-glazed planked door, with the light boarded over. The flanking windows are also boarded, although the right window is partly visible as a sash. All openings have flat heads and stone sills. The upper storey windows are 3-over-3-pane horned sashes, with the left window boarded over and aligned with the openings below. To the left of the brick stack is the joint of a former doorway, with a late 20th-century window to its left. Further left, at the angle with the bakehouse, there is a planked door beneath a shallow segmental head made of stone voussoirs. Above this door is another 3-over-3-pane horned sash under a similar head.

The single-storey bakehouse has a stone ridge stack offset to the left and a planked door that is offset to the right, reaching up to the eaves. There are signs of alterations towards the center of the wall, and an opening in the gable end is also offset to the left. The rear of the house is built into the hillside and features a 4-pane window towards the center of the house part on the upper storey, which likely lights the stairs.

Access to the interior was not available at the time of inspection.

Local climate

Nant Ystalwyn sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,220 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 85% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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