Hirfron is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 28 February 2005. House.
Hirfron
- WRENN ID
- lapsed-ashlar-woodpecker
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 28 February 2005
- Type
- House
- Address
- Hirfron, Carmel, Nantmel
- OS grid reference
- SO 051 662
- Coordinates
- 52.28649, -3.39182
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Hirfron is a 2-storey house with three windows, built from whitewashed rubble stone and topped with a slate roof. It features an external stone stack on the left with a brick shaft and an external brick stack on the right. The central panelled door is located beneath a small-pane overlight and is flanked by replacement windows that sit under wooden lintels. On the upper storey, there are three small horizontal-sliding sash windows positioned beneath the eaves. At the rear, there is an outshut that has replacement windows. The property has not been inspected.
Local climate
Hirfron sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,090 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% 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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