Bell House & Adjoining Smithy is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 1 February 1988. House, smithy. 1 related planning application.
Bell House & Adjoining Smithy
- WRENN ID
- tangled-cornice-twilight
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Brecon Beacons National Park
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 1 February 1988
- Type
- House, smithy
- OS grid reference
- SO 230 423
- Coordinates
- 52.07399, -3.12469
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Bell House and the adjoining smithy is a three-storey building with a three-window roughcast front and a plinth. It features a slate roof with raised eaves and a cement render chimney stack that has been heightened in brick. The building has horned sash windows without glazing bars, and there is a splayed bay window on the ground floor to the left. A pitched hood covers a half-glazed door located to the right.
Adjoining to the right is a lower rubble range that was formerly a smithy, which is two storeys high and has two windows. This section has a steep slate roof, a timber lintel over boarded doors, and a rubble chimney stack to the right, which connects to the chapel house. The rear of the smithy has a corrugated roof and boarded openings on the first floor, which may have also been present at the front, as suggested by recesses that are taller than the windows.
Local climate
Bell House & Adjoining Smithy receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 54% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- 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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