Former Stable at Pen-y-Lan Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 16 December 1976. Stable.

Former Stable at Pen-y-Lan Farm

WRENN ID
far-minaret-wax
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Brecon Beacons National Park
Constituency
Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
16 December 1976
Type
Stable
Address
Former Stable at Pen-y-Lan Farm, Powys
OS grid reference
SO 042 273
Coordinates
51.93682, -3.39363
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The former stable at Pen-y-Lan Farm is an attractive building that has one storey and a loft. It features stone rubble walls with quoins and a slate roof. The east elevation includes a circular lunette made of dressed stone at the center of the upper part of the wall. On the ground floor, there is a central doorway with a curved head, accompanied by a small window with a segmental head to the right. The south gable end has a dovecote at the apex and two segmental-headed openings at the upper level, which have steps leading down.

Local climate

Former Stable at Pen-y-Lan Farm sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,260 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 82% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% 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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