Pen-y-Dre Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 25 September 1986. Cottage.
Pen-y-Dre Cottage
- WRENN ID
- swift-corner-falcon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Brecon Beacons National Park
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 25 September 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Pen-y-Dre Cottage, Crickhowell, Powys
- OS grid reference
- SO 216 188
- Coordinates
- 51.86237, -3.139
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Pen-y-Dre Cottage is a two-storey building that features a three-window dry-dash front, with later 19th-century alterations. It has a slate roof, wide bracket eaves, and cement render end chimney stacks. On both the left and right sides, there are later 19th-century two-storey splayed bays that contain sash windows without glazing bars. The central section has a French window framed by classical panelled pilasters and a swept-out cornice, which leads to a balcony above an open porch. The porch is supported by cast-iron pillars and has lattice work on the sides. The central entrance includes a four-panel door topped by a two-pane fanlight.
Local climate
Pen-y-Dre Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,020 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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