Gwernvale Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 25 September 1986. Cottage.
Gwernvale Cottage
- WRENN ID
- ruined-footing-gold
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Brecon Beacons National Park
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 25 September 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Gwernvale Cottage, Crickhowell, Powys
- OS grid reference
- SO 215 191
- Coordinates
- 51.86513, -3.14039
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Gwernvale Cottage is a 2-storey building featuring a 3-window front made of scribed stucco with rusticated quoins. It has slate roofs, wide bracket eaves, and rendered end chimney stacks. The cottage includes recessed 12-pane sash windows and a bay window with sash glazing on the ground floor to the left. The central entrance has an open pedimented doorcase with an advanced cornice and pilasters, along with a 5-pane fanlight and modern doors. The left end wall is rendered and has ornamental bargeboards on the asymmetrical gable. The right end wall is similar and includes a remodelled range at the rear, sash windows, and a 2-storey splayed bay with a dentilled cornice.
Local climate
Gwernvale Cottage 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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