Ruperra House, including pavement cobbles to front. is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 16 December 1976. Library.

Ruperra House, including pavement cobbles to front.

WRENN ID
idle-forge-dawn
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
Library
Address
Ruperra House, including pavement cobbles to front., 1 Wheat Street, Powys
OS grid reference
SO 044 285
Coordinates
51.94701, -3.39185
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Ruperra House is a two-storey house with an attic, located on Wheat Street. The front is colourwashed and features three windows. It has a slate roof with tall stone chimneys at each end. The front block includes three gabled dormers with Brecon hopper windows. On the first floor, there are 20-pane hornless sash windows with stuccoed architraves. The ground floor has a similar sash window on either side of a central doorway, which features a six-panelled door with the top two panels glazed and a rectangular fanlight with tracery.

There is an open porch with a flat roof, an entablature, and chamfered wooden posts. The left gable end has a large external chimney breast, with a 12-pane sash window on the ground floor on either side. In front of the house, there is a T-shaped stone-flagged pavement with cobbled setts arranged in right-angled spaces created by the projecting wings of the "T".

Inside, the front block facing Wheat Street has cased beams at the first floor level and a chamfered beam on the ground floor.

Local climate

Ruperra House, including pavement cobbles to front. 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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