Upper Bwlch, including attached farm ranges is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 28 February 2005. A C17 House.

Upper Bwlch, including attached farm ranges

WRENN ID
crooked-vault-fern
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
Upper Bwlch, including attached farm ranges, Gaufron, Nantmel
OS grid reference
SO 003 687
Coordinates
52.30747, -3.46351
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Upper Bwlch is a two-storey, three-window house built of rubble stone, with the front rebuilt in brick on the center and left side, painted white. It features a renewed slate roof and stone end stacks. The openings have segmental heads in the lower storey and are located beneath the eaves in the upper storey. The central door has been replaced, and the windows are six-pane horned sashes. Attached farm ranges are aligned to the right and left. On the left side, there is an added open-fronted cart shed with a weatherboarded loft, a rubble-stone gable end with a boarded loft door, and a 19th-century slate roof. On the right gable end of the house is a weatherboarded cow shed with a corrugated-iron roof, which includes five split boarded doors and three boarded loft doors.

Inside the house, one complete cruck truss remains, although it is partly concealed. In the gable end, part of a cruck truss is embedded within the stonework of the hall fireplace. The current layout of the house dates from the 19th century, featuring a central hall and dog-leg stair. The former 17th-century hall on the right side has two spine beams with stepped stops and a fireplace with a large timber lintel and a bread oven.

Local climate

Upper Bwlch, including attached farm ranges sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,160 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% 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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