Old house at Bwlch Mawr is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 28 February 2005. House.
Old house at Bwlch Mawr
- WRENN ID
- outer-floor-elder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 28 February 2005
- Type
- House
- Address
- Old house at Bwlch Mawr, Carmel, Nantmel
- OS grid reference
- SO 043 671
- Coordinates
- 52.29406, -3.40452
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Bwlch Mawr is a 1½-storey house built from whitened rubble stone, topped with a slate roof and featuring a reduced stone stack on the left. The central doorway contains an early 20th-century panelled door with a round glazed panel, set in an earlier opening. The windows, which mostly lack glazing, include a 2-light window on the right and a 3-light window on the left, both under wooden lintels. The right-hand window has a date-inscribed jamb. There are two raked dormers, each with 2-light windows. At the rear, there are two more raked dormers, with the right-hand one retaining a horizontal-sliding sash window. A 20th-century window on the lower left has been enlarged from an earlier opening, while a window on the right is without glazing. On the left side, the roof slope of a former short rear wing, which housed a back-kitchen, is visible, and this area features an exposed bread oven.
Inside, parts of two cruck trusses can be seen; one is mostly concealed within the house, while the other is embedded in the gable end, dating from when the fireplace was constructed. The sub-medieval hall, located on the right side of the entrance, includes a large fireplace with chamfered stone jambs and a moulded timber lintel.
Local climate
Old house at Bwlch Mawr sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,090 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 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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