1 Kensington Row is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 16 December 1976. Cottage. 1 related planning application.

1 Kensington Row

WRENN ID
moated-threshold-moon
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Brecon Beacons National Park
Constituency
Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
16 December 1976
Type
Cottage
Address
1 Kensington Row, Powys, LD3 9AU
OS grid reference
SO 041 287
Coordinates
51.94923, -3.39596
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Nos 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 Kensington Row are a row of five two-storey cottages. They feature stone rubble walls and slate roofs, which have a half-hip at the southwest end. No. 1 has a front wall that is covered in painted pebbledash cladding. It includes a small modern window on the first floor, a modern window below, and a modern door to the left.

Local climate

1 Kensington Row sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,260 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 82% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 56 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.

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