Gwern Hwsmon is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 31 May 1962. House.

Gwern Hwsmon

WRENN ID
proud-rood-spring
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Powys
Constituency
Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
31 May 1962
Type
House
Address
Gwern Hwsmon, Frank's Bridge, Glascwm
OS grid reference
SO 112 565
Coordinates
52.19984, -3.29928
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Gwern Hwsmon is a T-plan house dating from 1744, built of rubble stone with a slate roof. It has a brick stack on the right side and a large external stack on the left gable end. The central gabled porch features a tooled stone segmental head with the inscription 'HM 1744' and has a boarded door. Most of the windows are modern insertions set under wooden lintels. To the right of the porch is a three-light window, while to the left are two single-light windows, with three similar windows located in the upper storey. The right gable end has enlarged three-light and one-light stair windows, and a small inserted upper-storey window is on the left side. The rear wing includes a pair of French doors in the lower storey beneath a single wooden lintel, along with two replacement windows in the upper storey that are topped with 17th-century hood moulds. The rear gable end of the wing has a similar hooded window on the right and inserted one-light and two-light windows in the upper storey. The opposite side wall of the rear wing features one-storey and two-storey projections. The left gable end of the main range has inserted upper-storey windows on either side of the stack.

Inside, the hall to the right of the entrance has two cross beams with broad chamfers and a fireplace with a timber lintel. To the left is a full-height dog-leg stair with turned balusters and square newels. The kitchen to the left and the rear parlour both have timber lintels over their fireplaces. The main range has a three-bay roof supported by collar-beam trusses.

Local climate

Gwern Hwsmon sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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