The Darren is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 November 1998. House.
The Darren
- WRENN ID
- fallen-step-holly
- 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
- House
- Address
- The Darren, Grwyne Fechan, the Vale of Grwyney, Powys
- OS grid reference
- SO 226 250
- Coordinates
- 51.91857, -3.12564
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Darren is a one-and-a-half storey house dating from the 19th century, featuring three windows on the main facade. To the left, there is a later addition marked by a butt joint. The house has a lower gabled stair turret at the back and an integral lower wing with a granary positioned forward on the right. The structure is built of rubble stone, with openings beneath wooden lintels, and has a recently renewed slate roof.
The main house includes 19th-century stone stacks to the left of the centre and at the left end, while the wing has an added brick stack at the end. The main house features half-dormers with sash windows, and the lower storey has similar windows, with the central window offset to the right of centre and a boarded door offset to the left of centre. The wing has a window facing the front that is now boarded up.
At the back, the stair turret contains a two-light casement window in an earlier opening. To the left, there is an added flat-roofed dormer with a two-light casement window, which was roofless at the time of inspection. The right gable end of the house has a sash window in the attic, a two-light casement window lower down on the right, and a boarded door lower on the left. To the left of this door, the side wall of the wing has external stone steps with brick risers leading to a granary doorway, which is now boarded up, along with a boarded loft opening to the right.
The property was not inspected at the time of the survey in January 1998.
Local climate
The Darren 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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