Spring House at Park Wells is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 12 November 1980. House.

Spring House at Park Wells

WRENN ID
vacant-bronze-yew
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Powys
Constituency
Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
12 November 1980
Type
House
Address
Spring House at Park Wells, Cilmery
OS grid reference
SO 026 519
Coordinates
52.15717, -3.42433
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Spring House at Park Wells is a small, two-storey octagonal building that encloses three springs. The walls are timber-framed with plaster infill, and it features a pyramidal slate roof with overhanging eaves, an apex finial, and a weathervane. The wood-framed casement windows, which are mostly of two lights with transoms on the upper floor, were added in the 19th century.

On the southeast side, there is an external brick stack. To the left of this stack is a blind facet, followed by a facet with a window above and below. The southwest facet has a window above and a half-glazed door below, where a former porch has been removed. The next facet features windows above and below, leading to a landing with mid-19th century iron railings and half-glazed double doors on the upper storey, with a window below. The following facet contains a two-light window above and below, while the last facet to the northeast has a window above a two-panel door.

Although not inspected during the recent survey, a previous inspection in 1980 noted that the three mineral water springs are covered over inside at ground-floor level. The lower storey has a wainscot lining, while the upper storey has painted walls.

Local climate

Spring House at Park Wells sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,070 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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