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

Lower Bwlch, including attached farm range

WRENN ID
lunar-step-grove
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
Lower Bwlch, including attached farm range, Gaufron, Nantmel
OS grid reference
SO 001 685
Coordinates
52.30625, -3.46628
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Lower Bwlch is a 1½-storey, 2-window house constructed from whitened rubble stone with a slate roof. It features a small brick stack to the left of the center and a cross wing, which is the original part of the house, that has a lower eaves line, a slate roof, and a roughcast stack at the rear. The central doorway is located within an added wooden porch. To the right of the doorway is a horizontal-sliding sash window, and there is a similar window in a gabled dormer above. On the left side, there are similar 2-light windows in a late 20th-century extension. The cross wing is weatherboarded.

To the right of the house is the farm range, which has a slightly lower ridge line. It is timber-framed and weatherboarded on a rubble-stone plinth where the ground slopes steeply. The farm range includes a wagon bay at the left end next to the house, two boarded doors, and two loft openings further to the right. At the right end, there is a split boarded door leading to a former stable at a lower level. Behind the farm range is a rubble-stone outshut, with its end wall rebuilt in blockwork.

Although not inspected, it is reported by RCAHM Wales that the older part of the house retains three cruck trusses and has a lobby-entry plan in the 19th-century addition.

Local climate

Lower Bwlch, including attached farm range 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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