Morgannwg House, including Forecourt Wall and Railings is a Grade II* listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 16 January 1952. A {} House. 6 related planning applications.
Morgannwg House, including Forecourt Wall and Railings
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-pediment-plover
- 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 January 1952
- Type
- House
- Period
- {}
- Address
- Morgannwg House, including Forecourt Wall and Railings, 2 Glamorgan Street, Powys, LD3 7DW
- OS grid reference
- SO 044 284
- Coordinates
- 51.94636, -3.391
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Morgannwg House is a tall house dating from the 19th century, featuring a stucco exterior, a hipped slate roof with overhanging eaves, and a rectangular brick chimney. The front faces Glamorgan Street and consists of three storeys and a basement, arranged in five bays. The façade includes bands and pilasters with incised decoration, with a slightly advanced central bay that has a gable adorned with decorative bargeboards and an inset semi-circular window. The top floor has four-pane sash windows, while the other floors feature 12-pane sashes set in moulded architraves, with those on the ground floor having bracketed cornices. There are steps leading up to a central porch that has open arches on the front and sides. The round-headed doorway contains a six-panelled door with panelled reveals. The rear elevation has five windows and includes a modern extension at right angles.
The forecourt is enclosed by a low stone wall with ashlar coping and railings that feature uprights with spiked finials and panelled standards. Inside, the house has a symmetrical ground floor plan, a good contemporary staircase with slender turned balusters, ground floor ceilings adorned with plaster roses and cornices, and period fireplaces.
Local climate
Morgannwg House, including Forecourt Wall and Railings 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2008
- Related listed building consents — 6 applications
- 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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