Upper Enig House is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 14 August 1995. House.
Upper Enig House
- WRENN ID
- night-paling-foxglove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Brecon Beacons National Park
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 14 August 1995
- Type
- House
- Address
- Upper Enig House, Talgarth, Powys
- OS grid reference
- SO 155 336
- Coordinates
- 51.99451, -3.23167
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Upper Enig House is a house from the early to mid-19th century, possibly with earlier origins. It has two storeys and three bays. The central entrance features a 19th-century glazed door set within a timber doorcase and topped by a flat canopy. The windows are two-light casements from the late 19th century, located in openings with slightly cambered heads, and there is a sill band at the first floor level. Above the central bay, there is a small decorative gable that includes a blind lunette. The house has gable stacks.
Local climate
Upper Enig House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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