Pontybat is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 31 March 2005. House.

Pontybat

WRENN ID
far-panel-gold
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Powys
Constituency
Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
31 March 2005
Type
House
Address
Pontybat, Llanfilo, Brecon, Felin-Fach
OS grid reference
SO 114 340
Coordinates
51.99761, -3.2909
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Pontybat is a house featuring whitewashed render that mimics ashlar, topped with a slate close-eaved roof and three roughcast chimneys—one at each end and one on the ridge to the left of center. The right end stack has a prominent external chimney breast with two diagonally set late 17th century shafts. The building is two storeys high with an attic, consisting of a main three-bay house with two gables on the right and a service range with one gable on the left, all under a single roof.

The front windows, except for those in the gables, are imitation sashes made of uPVC. The main section has two 9-pane attic sash windows in the gables, three uPVC 16-pane sashes on the first floor, and two on the ground floor, flanking a central half-glazed door. The service range gable is positioned well to the left of the other gables, featuring a 9-pane attic window, a pair of imitation 12-pane sashes on the first floor (which replaced 19th century 4-pane sashes), and a ground floor 20th century glazed door (which replaced a 19th century 6-pane sash). There is also a triple casement window to the left (which replaced a door) and an imitation 16-pane window to the right.

At the rear, there is a two-storey northeast stable wing with a granary above the stable and a cider room. The interior was not inspected, but a plan from 1964 indicated that the main range was divided into five bays by beams, with large chimneys at each end. The interior layout included a parlour to the east, a stair hall in the center, and a hall to the right. The kitchen was located in the added service range on the west end, with a dairy at the rear.

Local climate

Pontybat sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,100 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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