Lower Pendre is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 21 August 1998. Farmhouse.

Lower Pendre

WRENN ID
lesser-turret-blackthorn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Brecon Beacons National Park
Constituency
Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
21 August 1998
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Lower Pendre, Llangors, Powys
OS grid reference
SO 134 280
Coordinates
51.94452, -3.26084
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Lower Pendre is a village farmhouse constructed of roughcast stone, featuring a steeply pitched Welsh slate roof adorned with terracotta ridge tiles and distinctive end chimney stacks set diagonally to the left. The building has a T-shaped plan with a central cross passage and stands two storeys high with an attic. The front displays paired gabled dormers and a three-window range of 19th-century casements, some of which have been replaced later, with slightly cambered heads on the first floor. A front gabled porch adds to its character.

At the rear, there is a two-storey gabled cross staircase wing, which includes windows with timber lintels across three storeys, featuring a small pane apex light and an adjacent porch. Inside, the farmhouse retains its central cross passage with a screen still in place. A rear passage runs at right angles, separating the staircase wing, which boasts an open well staircase with balustrades and a shaped doorhead. The main rooms preserve chamfered and stopped beams, with some reeded to the right, and the fireplaces have been modelled in the 19th century.

Local climate

Lower Pendre sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,180 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 57 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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