The Old Cable House is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 24 December 1982. Cable house.
The Old Cable House
- WRENN ID
- broken-attic-thrush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr MP: Steve Witherden (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 24 December 1982
- Type
- Cable house
- Address
- The Old Cable House, Leighton, Forden, Forden with Leighton and Trelystan
- OS grid reference
- SJ 247 050
- Coordinates
- 52.63829, -3.11304
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Old Cable House is a two-storey building constructed of brick, featuring rock-faced quoins and a snecked stone basement. It has a brick parapet above a plain plinth band with a corbel table and stone coping, topped by a hipped roof. The south front showcases two tall round-headed windows with stone sills, imposts, and keys, fitted with small-pane sashes. There is a small window in a similar style inserted in the upper storey during the late 20th century. Between the main windows, there is a cast iron bearing box behind glass, with another bearing box, infilled with brick, located slightly higher and to the right. The basement has three equally-placed sash windows. The right side wall features a round-headed window similar to those on the front, while the left side wall has an inserted doorway. The rear has late 20th-century extensions. To the west, there is a rubble stone wall with a brick parapet leading to a nine-sided tower. This tower is also made of brick and shares similar architectural details with the Old Cable House, including a parapet above a plinth band with a plain corbel table, round-headed openings on the north and south faces, and doorways in the east and west faces.
Originally, the building was a single-storey structure with a basement but was divided into two storeys in the late 20th century. A bearing box, similar to the one in the south wall, is visible in the north wall. From the basement, there is a brick-vaulted tunnel leading to the tower, which is partitioned at the property boundary between the Old Cable House and Park Cottage.
Local climate
The Old Cable House receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 45 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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