Pen-y-Lan Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 20 June 1995. House.

Pen-y-Lan Farmhouse

WRENN ID
turning-forge-wax
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Brecon Beacons National Park
Constituency
Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
20 June 1995
Type
House
Address
Pen-y-Lan Farmhouse, Wenallt, Llanigon, Powys
OS grid reference
SO 227 390
Coordinates
52.04436, -3.12712
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Pen-y-Lan Farmhouse is a two-storey building primarily constructed of rendered stone and topped with concrete tiles. The west elevation features a porch with a double ovolo-moulded lintel above the door, and a window with an old lintel situated above it. The north porch window is blocked and has a stone label above it, while the other doors and windows are made of wood from the 19th and 20th centuries, including upper dormer windows. A central stone chimney is present, with the north side showing exposed stone and the chimney having stone-coped offsets. On the east side, there are four original square-shaped lower windows, including a stairlight, all with stone labels, and upper windows in the dormers. There is also a lean-to addition made of stone, concrete blocks, and an asbestos roof, which dates from two different periods. The south side has a blocked original window in the gable, featuring four lights with square mullions set diagonally under a stone label.

The doors are mainly planked and date from the 18th and 19th centuries, with a plank door to the bathroom that dates back to the 17th century. The ground-floor rooms have deep-chamfered ceiling beams, and the hall contains a 17th-century doorframe and a blocked fireplace. Adjacent to this is a staircase with stone treads from the 17th century. There is a chamfered plank and muntin partition leading to the inner room, where a beam across the front of the chimney has served as the head of a partition. The inner room has a raised stone floor and was formerly subdivided, with remnants of a chamfered plank and muntin partition. The rear window features 18th or 19th-century shutters. The cellar has a stopped ovolo-moulded doorframe leading from the hall, with a shaped inner head and an original door. The inner door and frame, along with the hinges and wooden handle, date from the 17th century, and the staircase nearby is also from that period. On the first floor, the head of the 'cellar' stairs is framed with 17th-century oak wainscot, and there is a matching scratch-moulded six-panelled door. Above the kitchen, there is an 18th-century partition and door.

Local climate

Pen-y-Lan Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% 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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