1 Buckingham Place is a Grade II* listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 16 January 1952. A C16 House.
1 Buckingham Place
- WRENN ID
- pitched-storey-tallow
- 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 January 1952
- Type
- House
- Address
- 1 Buckingham Place, Powys, LD3 7DL
- OS grid reference
- SO 044 284
- Coordinates
- 51.94672, -3.3922
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Nos 1, 2, and 3 Buckingham Place are a group of stone houses that partially incorporate two wings of a 16th-century house. Nos 1 and 3 are positioned at right angles and are connected diagonally by No 2. The buildings are constructed of stone with slate roofs and consist of two storeys plus attics. The exterior features mainly 19th-century windows with red brick dressings.
No 1, located on the right, has a street front with two windows and a large gabled attic that includes a lunette window. On the first floor, there is a tripartite sash window on the left and a four-pane sash window on the right. The ground floor features a tripartite sash window on the left and a doorway with reveals and a cornice on the right. The right side of No 1 has a tall arched stair window and a smaller sash window on the ground floor to the left. At the rear, No 1 has a block finished in cement render with a double-pitch slate roof. Additionally, the rear includes a window with two camber-headed lights beneath a square hoodmould on the first and second floors in the south return.
No 3 boasts a fine early 19th-century curving stair and late 18th-century or early 19th-century panelled doors and doorcases. The interior features 17th-century ovolo moulded ceiling beams. Both the ground and first floors have recently uncovered large stone fireplaces, likely from the 17th century, with moulded surrounds; the ground floor fireplace has an arched head, while the first-floor fireplace has a square head.
Local climate
1 Buckingham Place 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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