Maescar is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 11 October 1974. Farmhouse.
Maescar
- WRENN ID
- secret-window-woodpecker
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Brecon Beacons National Park
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 11 October 1974
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Maescar, Powys
- OS grid reference
- SN 948 282
- Coordinates
- 51.9431, -3.53135
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Maescar is a farmhouse constructed from painted rubble stone, featuring a slate roof and three brick chimneys. The building stands two storeys high and has an original three-window range, with a two-window addition on the right. Most openings have 19th-century cambered brick heads, and all are fitted with late 20th-century uPVC glazing that mimics original sash or hopper windows, along with slate sills. There is a straight joint between the original house on the left and the addition on the right.
The original section has two square 4-pane windows on the first floor, with their sills positioned just above the head of a ground floor 6-pane window on the left, which features stone voussoirs, and a doorway on the right. To the right of centre, there is a ground floor 6-pane window with an oak lintel. The addition has two matching square 4-pane windows on the upper floor above a blank ground floor window, and a cambered-headed 9-pane timber hopper window. The left end is finished in painted roughcast. At the rear, there is an outshut in the centre, with a timber lintel and a dripstone in the original rear wall to the right.
The interior has not been inspected, but the plan indicates an entry into a hall with a rear door opposite, one beam in the hall, another over a partition to the parlour on the left, and one beam in the right end addition.
Local climate
Maescar sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,330 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 55 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 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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