Upper Cable House is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 24 December 1982. House.
Upper Cable House
- WRENN ID
- scarred-wattle-lichen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr MP: Steve Witherden (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 24 December 1982
- Type
- House
- Address
- Upper Cable House, Moel Y Mab, Forden, Forden with Leighton and Trelystan
- OS grid reference
- SJ 249 052
- Coordinates
- 52.63951, -3.11055
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Upper Cable House is a two-storey building with an attic, designed in a rustic Gothic style. The lower storey features rock-faced, snecked Cefn stone, while the upper storey is constructed of timber framing with square panels and white brick nogging. A moulded string course runs beneath the timber framing. The hipped slate roof rises to a flat apex, adorned with wrought iron brattishing, and includes two tiers of gabled roof dormers.
In the upper storey, diagonal braces in the outer panels create saltire crosses. On the west side, which slopes down, there is a three-window range with two-light casements in the upper storey, while the rear elevation is similar but has single casements in the side walls. The lower storey features two cross-windows at the front, each beneath cambered lintels. Below each window, within a shallow projecting plinth, are slots for cables, although these have been bricked up to the right.
The left side wall has a boarded door with iron studs and decorative fake strap hinges. At plinth level in the front, there are two bays of coursed stone that continue as a retaining wall on the left side. The building was not inspected in November 1996.
Local climate
Upper Cable House receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 45 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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