Little Malt House is a Grade II* listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 July 1963. House.

Little Malt House

WRENN ID
dusted-dormer-river
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Brecon Beacons National Park
Constituency
Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
19 July 1963
Type
House
Address
Little Malt House, Crickhowell, Powys, NP8 1BP
OS grid reference
SO 218 185
Coordinates
51.85961, -3.13551
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Little Malt House is the central section of a former mansion, consisting of the central and right-hand bay of a three-window main range that is two storeys high with an attic. The building features rubble walls that are colour-washed on the main front, steep pitched slate roofs, and axial stacks located at the centre and right. The central entrance is flanked by small-paned sash windows, with similar windows on the first floor and two dormer windows in the gables that have decorative bargeboards. The left-hand bay is part of The Malt House.

The interior has been largely rebuilt following fire damage but retains the roof and other structural timbers that likely date back to the original 16th-century house. On the ground floor, there is a remnant of a Georgian wattle partition, and attached to this is a surviving fragment of a wooden screen. Slots in the beam above indicate that this screen once extended across the width of the ground floor and originated as part of a wooden screen to the cross passage. Additionally, there is a broad segmental arch with capitals towards the rear of the cross passage on the ground floor.

Local climate

Little Malt House 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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