The Hermitage at Ffald y Brenin Christian Retreat Centre is a Grade II listed building in the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 8 April 2021. Retreat centre.
The Hermitage at Ffald y Brenin Christian Retreat Centre
- WRENN ID
- mired-granite-claret
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Pembrokeshire Coast National Park
- Constituency
- Ceredigion Preseli MP: Ben Lake (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 8 April 2021
- Type
- Retreat centre
- Address
- The Hermitage at Ffald y Brenin Christian Retreat Centre, Pontfaen, Cwm Gwaun
- OS grid reference
- SN 047 352
- Coordinates
- 51.98122, -4.84494
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Hermitage at Ffald y Brenin Christian Retreat Centre is a single-storey building with a loft, originally a mill, constructed from rubble stone and topped with a slate roof that features a mix of colours. It has a stone chimney on the left side and a skylight on the rear slope. The openings are set under brick arches, with trapezoidal heads on the windows and doors, which also have slate sills. To the right, there is a half-glazed boarded door, flanked by two unequal windows on the left. The left gable end has an additional window, positioned slightly to the right, while the right gable end, where the ground rises sharply, includes an attic window and a small opening at ground level.
Inside, the walls and ceiling are white plastered. On the ground floor, there is an inserted fireplace with a stone surround made of unquarried stone, left unplastered, and featuring a slate hearth slab. A straight staircase leads to a 'croglofft'-type sleeping space.
Local climate
The Hermitage at Ffald y Brenin Christian Retreat Centre sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,160 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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