Retaining wall and two wells to SW of The Old Vicarage is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 25 January 2005. Retaining wall with wells.
Retaining wall and two wells to SW of The Old Vicarage
- WRENN ID
- long-granite-marsh
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 25 January 2005
- Type
- Retaining wall with wells
- Address
- Retaining wall and two wells to SW of The Old Vicarage, Llanddew, Brecon
- OS grid reference
- SO 055 307
- Coordinates
- 51.96737, -3.37673
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The structure is a retaining wall with two wells located southwest of The Old Vicarage. The wall is made of rubble stone and has been extensively repaired, particularly towards the right end, while the left side is in poor condition. It stretches approximately 40 meters from the right side to a broad segmental-arched medieval opening that leads to a deep well-recess with a rectangular pool. The wall continues to the left, behind a village pump and a lean-to shed, leading to the low remains of a semicircular projection, which may have been a bastion. It then extends as an eroded retaining wall for about 30 meters to a field gate at the left end.
On the inside, behind the external well, there is another well-chamber that is at right angles to the back of the wall. This chamber can be accessed by stone steps leading down. The well features a stone barrel vault, although the front part is missing, over a square stone pool.
Local climate
Retaining wall and two wells to SW of The Old Vicarage sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,170 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% 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 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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