Hay Barn at Penpont is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 18 January 2002. Barn.

Hay Barn at Penpont

WRENN ID
late-cobble-elder
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Brecon Beacons National Park
Constituency
Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
18 January 2002
Type
Barn
Address
Hay Barn at Penpont, Trallong, Powys
OS grid reference
SN 970 287
Coordinates
51.94806, -3.49915
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The hay barn at Penpont is a large structure consisting of 10 bays. It is built from rubble stone and features a corrugated iron roof. There are two sets of opposing doorways located in the 3rd and 8th bays, and the walls include tall rectangular openings situated between square piers. The west side of the barn has buttresses, while the left end gable is covered with weatherboarding. The roof is supported by collar-and-tie-beam trusses, spanning the ten bays.

Local climate

Hay Barn at Penpont sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,330 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 55 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 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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