Pencraig is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 23 May 2003. Farmhouse.

Pencraig

WRENN ID
broken-tin-saffron
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Powys
Constituency
Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr MP: Steve Witherden (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
23 May 2003
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Pencraig, Cwm Rhiweirth, Llangynog
OS grid reference
SJ 044 270
Coordinates
52.83281, -3.41952
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Pencraig is a two-storey, two-window farmhouse built in local uncoursed slate masonry, topped with a slate roof and tile ridge. The house faces downhill to the south-west. It features four-pane small upper timber windows set against the eaves, which have pivoting lights, and larger four-pane sash windows aligned below. The windows are fitted with slate sills and lintels. At the center of the house is an open-fronted porch made with large slate flagstones on the sides and top, leading to a modern semi-glazed door. There are end chimneys, which were added before the construction of the stable.

The stable is constructed from similar materials and has a boarded short door at the front with a timber lintel, along with a loft hatch at the rear.

At the back of the property, there is a farm range that includes a byre and a hay barn, both built with uncoursed slate masonry. The byre has a sheeted roof, while the barn has a slate roof with a tile ridge. The byre features a short door with a timber lintel and a large steel window, while the barn has a short door with a concrete lintel and two high-level openings without frames or shutters.

An early 20th-century linking range extends the full length of the rear of the original house, fitting into the narrow gap between the house and the farm range, and is made from similar materials. This rear side, which faces a small walled yard, has two windows above and below, both with stone lintels and sills. There are boarded doors above and below next to the farm range. The linking range also has windows on its north-west gable, including a lower sill that extends out with a large drainage groove from the sink.

Inside, the house has a two-unit layout with a kitchen range in the main room to the left, featuring chamfered beams.

Local climate

Pencraig sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% 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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