Granary at Upper House Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 25 September 1986. Granary. 2 related planning applications.
Granary at Upper House Farm
- WRENN ID
- seventh-finial-plum
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Brecon Beacons National Park
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 25 September 1986
- Type
- Granary
- Address
- Granary at Upper House Farm, Crickhowell, Powys, NP8 1BZ
- OS grid reference
- SO 219 184
- Coordinates
- 51.85951, -3.13501
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The granary at Upper House Farm comprises two distinct parts. To the left is a single-storey rubble pigsty with four openings set behind a whitewashed rubble wall featuring boarded doors. It has an undulating roof of stone tiles, in a lean-to style.
To the right is a taller, single-storey building with an attic, built of whitewashed rubble at the front, with a rubble rear and a slate roof, partially corrugated on the rear pitch. The building has overhanging eaves to the front. A gabled entry is located on the left side and is accessed by external rubble steps. It features pivot windows and a boarded door, along with a broad opening leading to the rear. The roof has been raised to the left rear, incorporating a lean-to extension.
The interior retains original roof construction, including dowelled timbers and tenoned purlins.
Local climate
Granary at Upper House Farm sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,020 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 7 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- 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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