Bell Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 November 1998. Hotel.
Bell Hotel
- WRENN ID
- tenth-spindle-jet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Brecon Beacons National Park
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 19 November 1998
- Type
- Hotel
- Address
- Bell Hotel, Glangrwyne, the Vale of Grwyney, Powys
- OS grid reference
- SO 239 163
- Coordinates
- 51.84025, -3.10499
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Bell Hotel is a 2-storey building featuring a main range with a lower wing set back to the right and a higher 2-storey wing to the left, creating an L-shaped plan. The structure is constructed of random rubble sandstone with slate roofs, and the main range has a steep pitch. There is a stone stack on the right side of the main range and a brick stack on the left.
The main range has a three-window front with 12-pane hornless sash windows located beneath the wall plate. The lower storey includes tripartite sash windows flanking a central doorway, which has a replaced door and is sheltered by a recently added canopy. The left wing has a two-window front with 16-pane hornless sash windows set in brick surrounds. The side wall of this wing features a stepped external stack on the right, which has been rebuilt in brick above the eaves. To the left of the stack are two inserted casement windows in the upper storey, and a horned sash window in the lower left with a blocked door to its right.
A later, lower 2-storey projection is attached to the gable end of the left wing. The wing on the right side of the main range has a recently renewed slate roof and includes two inserted casement windows in the lower storey and one window above. Additionally, a lower projection against the right gable end has recently been raised to two storeys.
The interior has been modernised.
Local climate
Bell Hotel sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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