Llanerch Brochwell is a Grade II* listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 11 March 1981. House. 1 related planning application.

Llanerch Brochwell

WRENN ID
rooted-belfry-rain
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Powys
Constituency
Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr MP: Steve Witherden (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
11 March 1981
Type
House
Address
Llanerch Brochwell, Maermawr, Guilsfield, SY21 9DA
OS grid reference
SJ 191 102
Coordinates
52.68355, -3.19787
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Llanerch Brochwell is an ambitious two-storey building with a porch added in 1693, featuring an inscription over the door that reads "T./ S.M 1693 Stephen and Margaret Thomas." The porch has small panels and quatrefoil bracing, while the gable of the parlour showcases decorative timber, including parallel rafters. There is a 20th-century single-storey range attached to the service end of the building.

The main block exhibits square framing that is three panels high, with corner braces at the top plate, and it has been raised by an additional panel. The south wall of the main block, east of the porch, features decorative pargetting created around 1990 by Mrs. P. Cooke. The entrance is asymmetrical to the added porch block, with a wide boarded door from the 20th century in the original opening. The windows are also from the 20th century and are timber with ovolo moulding based on historical evidence.

Inside, the central hall has deep-chamfered cross beams with broach stops and chamfered joists that alternate in direction. There are grooves for sliding shutters over the windows. The main brick stack has been rebuilt, likely replacing a timber stack, with remnants of the original visible in the east end chamber. A timber frame partition leads to the service room, featuring ogee-headed door openings. The first-floor chambers were originally open to the roof, with small cusped windbraces located below the purlin and at wall plate level. The stair handrail is likely from 1693, with turned balusters and a handrail that is out of its original context, but the stair has a plaster soffit decorated with trident and fish motifs in ovals. The chamber above the porch contains painted graffiti from the Lloyd family, dated 1796 and 1826, including a reference to Richard Lloyd, a cartographer. The roof trusses generally feature queen struts to the collar and raking struts to the principal rafters.

Local climate

Llanerch Brochwell receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 50% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2006
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
  • 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
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