Cui Parc is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 3 August 1990. Country house.

Cui Parc

WRENN ID
south-gateway-blackthorn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Brecon Beacons National Park
Constituency
Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
3 August 1990
Type
Country house
Address
Cui Parc, Cwy, Talybont-On-Usk, Powys
OS grid reference
SO 107 226
Coordinates
51.89498, -3.29836
Source
Cadw listing

Also on this page: EPC · flood risk · radon risk · weather exposure · detailed attributes ↓

Description

Cui Parc is a Regency country house that incorporates an earlier core, which influences the layout of the building. It is constructed of rendered stone and features a Welsh slate roof with boarded eaves and rendered end stacks. The house has a U-shaped front with a recessed service bay on the right side. The rear elevation includes two parallel adjacent cross gables and a lower service range.

The main front has five bays, with the two end gabled bays projecting. All first-floor windows are 6/6 pane sashes with very narrow glazing bars set in reveals. The end gables have string courses that suggest a pediment, with small semi-circular lunettes above. In the recessed central section, these lights are positioned just below the eaves. On the ground floor, the end bays feature large 8/12 pane sashes, while the central section has full-length 6/6 sashes. The front entrance is located to the center left and includes a porch with a hipped and swept lead hood. The recessed service wing on the right is lower and has a central small gable with similar sash windows.

The left side elevation has a wide central gabled bay, with all sash windows except for a 20th-century ground floor bay window. Some windows have tooled sills. The rear elevation displays two parallel gables with lunettes on the south side and a lower low-pitched roof on the north side. The right side elevation mirrors the left with parallel gables and sash windows, facing a yard that contains a stone-tiled coach house and a slate-roofed workshop range.

Inside, the core of the building retains three large rooms from the earlier house, featuring chamfered and stopped cross beams, large stone fireplaces with massive jamb stones that are also chamfered and stopped, and another fireplace with a segmental arch under a timber lintel that is snecked for plaster. The interior has wide oak floorboards and a lath and plaster partition wall. From the Regency remodelling, the house retains six panelled doors, panelled reveals, and shutters, as well as a blocked round-headed former staircase window.

Local climate

Cui Parc sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,180 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 57 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% 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.

More on this building

Sign in or create a free account to unlock:

  • Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
  • No sale records on file
  • No related consent applications matched
  • Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
  • Flood risk assessment
  • Radon risk assessment
  • Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Create free account

Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.

Similar buildings

The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.

Nearby listed buildings

  1. Barn range at Cui Parc Grade II 51 m
  2. Bridge over Nant Cui Grade II 236 m
  3. Bank House Grade II 531 m
  4. Former skittle alley and tea-room Grade II 631 m
  5. Gileston Mill aka Talybont Mill Grade II* 649 m
  6. The Star Inn Grade II 655 m
  7. Talybont Aqueduct (Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal) Grade II 666 m
  8. Weighbridge Cottage Grade II 677 m
  9. Former house and attached barn at Coity Bach Grade II 700 m
  10. Cottage and barn range and courtyard wall at Coity Mawr Grade II 701 m