Pen-y-Foel Limekilns is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 29 April 2005. Limekilns.
Pen-y-Foel Limekilns
- WRENN ID
- vacant-mantel-elder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Brecon Beacons National Park
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 29 April 2005
- Type
- Limekilns
- Address
- Pen-y-Foel Limekilns, Penwyllt, Tawe-Uchaf, Powys
- OS grid reference
- SN 854 153
- Coordinates
- 51.82477, -3.66404
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Pen-y-Foel Limekilns is a large masonry structure approximately 6 meters high, featuring four kilns with ramped revetment walls that are built against the hillside. The site includes a level loading platform with four brick-lined kiln openings, of which only the southern aperture reaches full height; the other three are broken and partly filled. The main wall is constructed with large dressed stones for the vertical buttresses and outer quoins, and there are four brick-arched drawholes facing east. In front of the right-hand drawholes, there is a narrow masonry platform designed for loading the burnt lime onto railway wagons. Inside, the rear of the brick-lined kilns has low interconnecting arches.
Local climate
Pen-y-Foel Limekilns sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,460 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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