Dol y Coed Well-House is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 7 June 1984. Well-house. 3 related planning applications.
Dol y Coed Well-House
- WRENN ID
- sacred-portal-twilight
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 7 June 1984
- Type
- Well-house
- Address
- Dol y Coed Well-House, Builth Wells, Llanwrtyd Wells, LD5 4TH
- OS grid reference
- SN 871 470
- Coordinates
- 52.10984, -3.64968
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Dol y Coed Well-House is a single-storey T-plan building dating from the 19th century. It features cement rendered walls, quoins, and a moulded plinth. The building previously had a hipped slate roof with ridge cresting and wide boarded eaves. The wide window openings, which are now boarded over, originally contained tripartite wooden windows and are adorned with moulded architraves and keystones.
On the south front, there is a doorway to the left with a pilastered and segmental headed frame that once held a 6-panel door, now boarded over. To the right of this doorway is another window opening. The west side of the front block has a central window opening. To the northwest, the footings of a former conservatory can be seen, which had a mosaic-type floor. The well-head's rendered drum is exposed and topped with a domed head featuring an octagonal vent. To its right is an internal boarded door.
The east side of the front block has a pilastered doorway with a flat head on the left and a window to the right. There is a short range extending to the east, beyond which is a single-storey addition with cement rendered walls under a slate roof, large quoins, and a plinth. This addition has a half-glazed door on the south front, flanked by plain boarded window openings. The gable end features a blocked doorway on the left and a 2-light multi-pane casement window on the right. At the rear, there is a similar window and a small late 20th-century window to its right.
Access to the interior was not available at the time of inspection, but it is reported to be plain, with vertically boarded walls, moulded cornices, plain ceilings, and 6-panel doors. The drum of the well-head is said to be decorated with mosaic cladding and key-pattern bands, and it originally featured ornamental spouts.
Local climate
Dol y Coed Well-House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,200 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% 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 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% 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.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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