Caerfagu is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 12 December 1952. Cottage. 1 related planning application.

Caerfagu

WRENN ID
grim-tallow-soot
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Powys
Constituency
Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
12 December 1952
Type
Cottage
Address
Caerfagu, Nantmel, LD1 6EF
OS grid reference
SO 047 655
Coordinates
52.27976, -3.39829
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Caerfagu is a 1½-storey house constructed from whitened rubble stone, topped with a corrugated asbestos-cement roof and featuring rebuilt stone end stacks. The openings are offset to the left. The entrance, which is within a recently added shallow wooden porch, has a boarded door with glazed panels set beneath a 19th-century brick segmental arch. On the right and left sides of the entrance are replacement windows situated under earlier wooden lintels. The house also has three raked dormers, each fitted with replacement windows.

On the right gable end, which displays plaster panels, there is a single-storey lean-to made of rubble stone with a replacement tile roof. This lean-to features a boarded door with glazed panels beneath an earlier wooden lintel.

At the rear, there are two replacement windows under wooden lintels and an inserted door to the left. Above these, there are additional replacement windows to the right of center, and further to the right is a re-used casement window laid side-on beneath the eaves. The lean-to includes a two-light metal-framed casement window.

The current layout of the house dates from the 19th century and includes a central stair hall. The room on the right side, which was formerly the hall, features a stop-chamfered cross beam and a large fireplace with chamfered stone jambs and a timber lintel. The room on the left side, previously the parlour, also has a stop-chamfered cross beam and a fireplace with a plain timber lintel.

Local climate

Caerfagu sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,090 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% 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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  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2018
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
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