Cantref House is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 28 July 2005. Former vicarage.
Cantref House
- WRENN ID
- cold-foundation-bittern
- 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 July 2005
- Type
- Former vicarage
- Address
- Cantref House, Llanfrynach, Powys, LD3 8LR
- OS grid reference
- SO 056 254
- Coordinates
- 51.91992, -3.374
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Cantref House is a former vicarage built in the 19th century. The building is roughcast with slate roofs, featuring flat eaves and roughcast end stacks. It stands three storeys high and has a three-window range of small-paned sash windows with stone sills. The upper windows have nine panes, the first-floor windows have twelve panes, and the ground floor features tripartite windows with four panes on each side of a central twelve-pane window. There is an added enclosed porch with bargeboards and a half-glazed door on the left side. The left end wall has one window on each floor to the left. The rear southeast wing includes a large external roughcast chimney on the east side and an end gable with part slate-hanging, while the rear southwest wing has a roughcast external chimney. The interior is not available for inspection.
Local climate
Cantref House 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2004
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