Hafodwen is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 1 February 1988. House. 1 related planning application.

Hafodwen

WRENN ID
inner-timber-poplar
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Brecon Beacons National Park
Constituency
Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
1 February 1988
Type
House
Address
Hafodwen, 8 Bear Street, Hay, Powys, HR3 5AN
OS grid reference
SO 231 423
Coordinates
52.0741, -3.12315
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Hafodwen is an 18th-century, two-storey building with a symmetrical front featuring two windows. The exterior is made of whitewashed rubble, and it has a modern concrete tiled roof. There is a rendered square chimney stack that has been truncated, along with a smaller brick stack that has been added. The windows are small-pane casements with cills. Above the six-panel door, there is a broad bracket hood with a four-pane fanlight. Under the eaves, there is a blank tablet in the center, which may have originally displayed a date.

Local climate

Hafodwen receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 54% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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