Sychnant Fach is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 14 December 2004. House. 1 related planning application.
Sychnant Fach
- WRENN ID
- calm-sill-alder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 14 December 2004
- Type
- House
- Address
- Sychnant Fach, Rhayader, LD6 5LW
- OS grid reference
- SN 973 775
- Coordinates
- 52.38589, -3.50948
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Sychnant Fach is a 2-storey house with two windows, built from whitened rubble stone and topped with a slate roof and end brick stacks. The openings are slightly offset to the left and feature brick dressings with segmental heads on the lower storey. The central entrance includes a fielded-panel door. The lower storey has 12-pane horned sash windows, while the upper storey has 9-pane horned sash windows. At the rear, there is an added lean-to.
Local climate
Sychnant Fach sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,180 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 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 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 — 3 transactions since 1995
- 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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