The Forge, No 3 Church Row is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 8 November 1985. Residential. 1 related planning application.
The Forge, No 3 Church Row
- WRENN ID
- sombre-quartz-poplar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Brecon Beacons National Park
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 8 November 1985
- Type
- Residential
- Address
- The Forge, No 3 Church Row, Defynnog, Maescar, Powys, LD3 8SB
- OS grid reference
- SN 925 279
- Coordinates
- 51.93988, -3.56437
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Forge, located at No 3 Church Row, is a Grade II listed terrace house built from rubble stone, featuring a slate roof with deep eaves and red brick chimneys. The roof has a scalloped eaves board, and the chimneys have renewed red brick shafts set diagonally, positioned on the ridge behind a projecting gable that is close to the party wall with No 2.
This two-storey house has a three-window range, with a projecting gable on the right side. The gable showcases scalloped bargeboards, a tooled sandstone plinth, and windows with deep chamfered jambs, stone sills, and moulded sandstone hoodmoulds above timber lintels. The gable itself has a single light window, while the ground floor features a three-light window with a mullion and transom. The main range to the left has two small windows under the eaves, both with chamfered jambs and stone sills; the left window is narrower. Below these, there is a similar three-light window with a hoodmould and a segmental-pointed chamfered doorway that has a studded board door with iron strap hinges.
At the rear, there are two windows on each floor, designed in the Brecon hopper style. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
The Forge, No 3 Church Row sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,410 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 55 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 31 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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