Coach-house at Porth Mawr & adjoining boundary walls to SW end and NE to Gate-house on Brecon Road is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 25 September 1986. Coach-house. 3 related planning applications.
Coach-house at Porth Mawr & adjoining boundary walls to SW end and NE to Gate-house on Brecon Road
- WRENN ID
- final-barrel-cedar
- 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
- Coach-house
- OS grid reference
- SO 217 185
- Coordinates
- 51.86005, -3.13814
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The coach-house at Porth Mawr, along with the adjoining boundary walls to the southwest and northeast to the Gate-house on Brecon Road, is a two-storey and attic, three-bay structure built from rubble with a slate roof. It features a weathervane at the ridge and a brick chimney stack. The central bay is advanced and gabled, showcasing plain bargeboards and wide eaves, along with a circular attic window. There is a boarded opening on the first floor beneath a timber lintel and cambered voussoirs, which was formerly fitted with a bell. The ground floor is constructed from coursed rubble and includes paired cambered-headed coaching entrances with voussoirs and keystones, leading to double boarded doors. To the left, there is a smaller entrance next to a horizontal sliding sash window, and a similar arrangement is found to the right with an adjoining lower outbuilding. The plain rubble gable ends also feature circular attic lights set in brick surrounds. The rear wall displays a vertical joint and includes two boarded and two open loft doors, along with a three-light timber window for the outbuilding.
Adjoining to the right is a part castellated wall, which is raised near the corner and has double boarded doors. There is a pointed chamfered arch opening further along before the wall terminates against the Porth Mawr Gatehouse on Brecon Road.
Local climate
Coach-house at Porth Mawr & adjoining boundary walls to SW end and NE to Gate-house on Brecon Road 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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- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
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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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