Govilon House is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 15 March 1996. House. 1 related planning application.
Govilon House
- WRENN ID
- broken-tracery-thrush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Brecon Beacons National Park
- Constituency
- Monmouthshire MP: Catherine Fookes (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 15 March 1996
- Type
- House
- Address
- Govilon House, Llanfoist Fawr, Monmouthshire, NP7 9PT
- OS grid reference
- SO 266 138
- Coordinates
- 51.8185, -3.06571
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Govilon House is a late-Georgian, two-story, three-window house. The front facade is painted roughcast and close to symmetrical. It has a tall slate roof, originally M-shaped, with cement-rendered chimney stacks serving fireplaces on the rear slope. The roofline has a coved eaves band. The windows are small-pane sashes, with 12 panes on the first floor and 20 panes on the ground floor, framing a large six-panel front door with a three-pane overlight. There are small-pane casements in the left-hand gable end, and a single window high up at the right-hand end, which is skewed backwards along the line of the side lane. The rear elevation features four-pane sash windows, and adjacent to it is a modernised, single-story former stable range.
Inside, the central entrance hall retains the original staircase with a turned newel, straight balusters and broad oak treads. Features include moulded cornices, six-panel doors, panelled shutters, and panelled cupboards. The main rooms contain one marble fireplace and another decorated with gilded wood.
Local climate
Govilon House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 7 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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