Brookfield House is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 1 February 1988. House.
Brookfield House
- WRENN ID
- distant-parapet-honey
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Brecon Beacons National Park
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 1 February 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Brookfield House, Hay, Powys, HR3 5BQ
- OS grid reference
- SO 230 424
- Coordinates
- 52.07541, -3.12451
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Brookfield House is an L-plan, three-storey building constructed from coursed rubble, featuring a plinth and a later cross range to the left. It has a slate roof with rubble end chimney stacks and weathercoursing on the left side. The front has recessed three-light casement windows with concrete lintels and an off-centre four-panel door to the left, which is sheltered by a modern hood. To the left, there is a 19th-century gable-ended, one-window parallel rubble range that projects forward, featuring wide eaves, a horned sash window, and a hopper window on the front. The right-hand gable end has wave-ornamented bargeboards and a finial, above an attached hipped roof Victorian Schoolroom, which is screened from the front by a brick wall. The two-storey rear has a steep roof pitch and a central dormer with a sash window, along with some small pane sashes to the left.
To the left, a rubble wall encloses the stable courtyard, which includes a coursed rubble gable-ended coach house and stables that are splayed back to the rear and adjoin the former corn mill.
Inside, the house features a broad entrance hall with an exposed timber frame and post and panel partitions. It has massive stop-chamfered cross beams, with the outer beams showing signs of having supported screens. There is a timber lintel above the fireplace and boarded shutters. A fine dog-leg staircase has flat pierced balusters (except on the top landing), square newels with chamfered edges, and finials. A mezzanine floor to the right was added following the raising of the dining room ceiling. The attic has boarded doors and retains original A-frame roof trusses with massive purlins.
Local climate
Brookfield House receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 54% 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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