The Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 28 August 1998. A C19 House.
The Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
- fallow-pediment-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
- 28 August 1998
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Rectory, Llangynidr, Powys
- OS grid reference
- SO 156 195
- Coordinates
- 51.86853, -3.22604
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Old Rectory is a two-storey house featuring walls with renewed roughcast, which replaced an earlier scribed front, and a two-span roof covered with renewed slates and adorned with trailed barge boards. There is a roughcast chimney stack on the right and additional stacks located behind.
On the upper storey, there are four 12-pane sash windows situated above a plat band. The three windows on the center and right side indicate the earlier structure, while the window on the left belongs to a later 19th-century enlargement. The lower storey includes French doors on both the left and right, which have margin glazing and overlights. The central doorway, located behind a recent classical-style porch, features an overlight and double doors with margin glazing above a single square panel.
The left side wall has a canted bay with sash windows on the right and two 12-pane horned sashes on the left in the lower storey. The rear elevation displays tripartite sash windows on the left and right in the upper storey, with a 4-pane sash window in between. In the lower storey, there are two sashes on the left and later casement windows. The right side wall has added lean-tos and a Gothic-style three-light mullioned and transomed window with a two-centred head.
The plan form and details are from the late 19th century. Inside, there is a central stair hall featuring an open-well stair with a wreathed handrail, with the main rooms located on the left and right. The interior has been mostly modernised. There is also a two-bay cellar beneath the earlier part of the house, accessed by stone steps and featuring a stone tunnel-vaulted ceiling.
Local climate
The Old Rectory sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,100 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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