Upper Cwm-y-ddalfa is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 10 March 1953. House.
Upper Cwm-y-ddalfa
- WRENN ID
- young-banister-tide
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr MP: Steve Witherden (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 10 March 1953
- Type
- House
- Address
- Upper Cwm-y-ddalfa, Newtown, Kerry
- OS grid reference
- SO 136 876
- Coordinates
- 52.48007, -3.27272
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Upper Cwm-y-ddalfa is a building featuring timber framing with small square panels, which has been refurbished and coated with pebbledash. This is applied on vertical lathing over weatherboarding on the southwest end. The roof is slate, with brick axial and end wall stacks. The windows and doors were replaced in the 1940s and 1950s. There is a central gabled open porch that covers a part-glazed door. The building has metal windows and timber casement windows on the upper floor, along with 18-pane sash windows on the east front of the wing. The gable end of the wing jetties out and has a prominent datestone that reads G E H / 1736. At the north end of the main range, there is a very large external stone stack with offsets, and the main range has a small lean-to at the rear.
Inside, a lobby leads to a living room on the left (south) and a service room on the right. Most of the interior framing, panelling, and detail are present but now covered up. There is a divided stair, likely inserted in the 18th century, featuring a simple stick balustrade. The ceiling joists are chamfered, some with pyramid stops, and are supported on chamfered posts of unknown date in the hall and service room. The service room contains a very large open fireplace with an oven. It is said that the west room of the wing is panelled beneath the current finishes.
Local climate
Upper Cwm-y-ddalfa sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,010 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% 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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