Kilvert Country Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 24 October 1951. Hotel.
Kilvert Country Hotel
- WRENN ID
- bitter-steel-birch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Brecon Beacons National Park
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 24 October 1951
- Type
- Hotel
- Address
- Kilvert Country Hotel, Hay, Powys
- OS grid reference
- SO 230 423
- Coordinates
- 52.07434, -3.12454
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Kilvert Country Hotel is a symmetrical, two-storey building with an attic, featuring a five-window front made of coursed rubble. It has distinctive rubble chimney stacks at the front corners, which are connected to the gable ends by later buttresses. The steep slate roof has boxed eaves and three Victorian pitched roof dormers, complete with pendants, finials, and casement windows. Above the 12-pane sash windows, there are rubble voussoirs. The central entrance has a bracketed pedimented doorcase with a decoratively carved entablature and a five-panel door. The right-hand gable end has two windows with 12-pane sashes on the first floor. To the left, there is an extension that includes a modern conversion of a former doctor's surgery, featuring swept roof dormers. The building is set back down a cobbled lane that used to lead to stables. Behind the main front, there is a restaurant range that has a hipped roof at the left end and brick voussoirs over 12-pane sashes and French windows. A modern kitchen cross range is located at the rear, along with modern alterations to the back of the main range, which includes another rubble chimney stack.
Inside, the hotel retains an altered dog-leg staircase with a closed string, a moulded handrail, and turned balusters. The walls are studded, and there are exposed beams and joists, as well as open roof trusses with chamfered purlins. The restaurant features panelled shutters, and there are angle fireplaces that have been blocked up in the bar area.
Local climate
Kilvert Country Hotel 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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