Gardener's cottage at Gwernyfed High School (Gwernyfed Park) is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 15 December 1995. Mausoleum.

Gardener's cottage at Gwernyfed High School (Gwernyfed Park)

WRENN ID
distant-doorway-rain
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Powys
Constituency
Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
15 December 1995
Type
Mausoleum
Address
Gardener's cottage at Gwernyfed High School (Gwernyfed Park), Aberllynfi
OS grid reference
SO 173 373
Coordinates
52.02816, -3.20635
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Gardener's Cottage at Gwernyfed High School, located in Gwernyfed Park, is a two-storey building constructed from grey sandstone rubble with limestone dressings and a tiled roof. It features a 'Z'-plan layout, which includes a wing on the right side of both the front and back elevations. An open arched porch with sidelights is situated under a low hipped roof in the re-entrant angle on the east side, while a staircase is located under a continuation of the main roof in the equivalent angle on the west side. The east-facing wing has a two-storey square bay with stone mullioned windows, which are transomed on the ground floor, and the roof is hipped. The cottage also has brick stacks.

Attached to the east front is the 3-meter high southwest wall of the kitchen garden, which features brick offset courses and a tiled coping.

Local climate

Gardener's cottage at Gwernyfed High School (Gwernyfed Park) sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% 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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