Pontyperchill Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 10 March 1953. House.

Pontyperchill Farmhouse

WRENN ID
fallow-spandrel-lark
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Powys
Constituency
Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr MP: Steve Witherden (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
10 March 1953
Type
House
Address
Pontyperchill Farmhouse, Bechan Valley, Bettws
OS grid reference
SO 122 951
Coordinates
52.54683, -3.29577
Source
Cadw listing

Also on this page: flood risk · radon risk · weather exposure · detailed attributes ↓

Description

Pontyperchill Farmhouse is a two-storey plus attic, L-shaped timber-framed house, featuring a main range with a cross-wing. The building has 19th-century roofs made of patterned tiles with crested ridge tiles. There are two 19th-century brick stacks, each with crosses in relief on all faces, located to the right of the main range and axial to the cross-wing. The main range is framed in square panels, while the cross-wing predominantly exhibits close studding, with square panels in the gable that have painted cusps. The plasterwork displays a variety of 19th-century designs, including horseshoes and Tudor roses, with a single pargeted Tudor rose on the front range.

The main range features a two-window front, with a three-light shallow oriel window on brackets to the right, under a hipped roof in the lower storey, and a two-light window to the left, flanking the four-panel front door. The right gable end has a lean-to with a tiled roof, above which the gable is close studded. The rear elevation includes fixed lights similar to those on the front. The cross-wing has a doorway at the angle with the main range. Its front gable features three- and four-light shallow oriel windows on brackets in the lower and upper storeys, respectively, along with a three-light casement window inserted in the gable during the 19th century. The ground floor window is also under a hipped roof that matches the one in the main range. The left side wall is weatherboarded and has casement windows, while the rear gable has three-light casements similar to those at the front.

Originally, the house likely consisted of a hall and kitchen in the main range, with a parlour and service room in the wing. In the 19th century, modifications were made, including the insertion of a full-height staircase in the former hall, while the kitchen became the parlour and vice versa. Inside the room to the right in the main range, there is a spine beam with ogee stops and a fireplace featuring an original bressumer and timber-framed baffle walls with brick nogging. The cross-wing includes a buttery accessed by stone steps at the rear.

Local climate

Pontyperchill Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,010 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% 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.

More on this building

Sign in or create a free account to unlock:

  • No EPC on record for this property
  • No sale records on file
  • No related consent applications matched
  • Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
  • Flood risk assessment
  • Radon risk assessment
  • Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Create free account

Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.

Similar buildings

The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.

Nearby listed buildings

  1. Pont y Perchyll Grade II 197 m
  2. Glan Bechan Grade II 675 m
  3. Little Aberbechan Grade II 873 m
  4. Highgate Grade II 1.1 km
  5. Red House Grade II 1.7 km
  6. Church of St Beuno Grade II* 1.7 km
  7. Lower Gwestydd Farmhouse Grade II 1.7 km
  8. The Old School Grade II 1.8 km
  9. The Vicarage Grade II 1.8 km
  10. Aberbechan Bridge (partly in Newtown & Llanllwchaiarn community) Grade II 1.8 km