Gwarafog House is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 29 April 2005. House.
Gwarafog House
- WRENN ID
- worn-brick-ochre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 29 April 2005
- Type
- House
- Address
- Gwarafog House, Garth, Llangammarch Wells, Llangamarch
- OS grid reference
- SN 954 488
- Coordinates
- 52.12834, -3.52896
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Gwarafog House is a two-storey house built of painted rendered rubble stone, topped with a slate roof that overhangs at the eaves. It features brick chimneys at both ends. The front has a five-window range, with 20th-century casement pairs that include single-pane top lights. The windows have stone sills and timber lintels, and there is a central part-glazed door. A previously existing door on the right end wall has been blocked and converted into a window. At the rear, there is an added lean-to.
The interior has a three-room layout, with a hall in the center, a main room to the right, and a small parlour to the left, which has a narrow room behind it. There are five beams in total, including two over the hall partitions, and the floors are supported by square joists. The staircase is located on the back wall of the hall and features a closed string, a thick rail, and turned balusters, although some have been replaced with chamfered square balusters. The short return of the staircase has boarding below the rail. In the right end room, there is a fireplace that retains a remnant of a heavy wall lintel, with part of it replaced in brick.
Local climate
Gwarafog House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,140 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% 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 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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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