Ashfield is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 25 September 1986. House.

Ashfield

WRENN ID
quiet-gravel-fern
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
House
Address
Ashfield, Crickhowell, Powys
OS grid reference
SO 217 186
Coordinates
51.86105, -3.13699
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Ashfield is a Regency two-storey house featuring stucco, with partly scribed fronts and slate roofs. It has wide bracketed and panelled eaves and three cement rendered chimney stacks. The main front has three windows, with the right-hand bay set back and a recessed door beyond. The first floor has 16-pane sash windows, while the ground floor has 20-pane sash windows with cills positioned just above ground level. To the left of the main front, there is a flat-roofed verandah with a boarded ceiling, supported by cast iron cylindrically grouped uprights, although some are missing. The verandah returns to the gable-ended entrance front, which features a 12-pane sash window above a six-panel door with a moulded architrave and panelled reveals, including some panels designed to imitate bamboo. There is also a five-pane fanlight above the door.

The rear of the house is roughcast and includes a segmental headed window for the staircase. There is a slate roof cross range to the right rear, which has sash windows.

Inside, the house retains a contemporary staircase with moulded tread-ends and scroll-ended newel posts.

Local climate

Ashfield 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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