Barn at Pencelli Court is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 17 January 1963. Barn.
Barn at Pencelli Court
- WRENN ID
- worn-wall-dawn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Brecon Beacons National Park
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 17 January 1963
- Type
- Barn
- Address
- Barn at Pencelli Court, Talybont-On-Usk, Powys
- OS grid reference
- SO 090 250
- Coordinates
- 51.91654, -3.32312
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The barn at Pencelli Court is a long, two-storey structure built of stone rubble, which was previously limewashed, and features a corrugated roof. The right section of the barn is older and constructed with timber framing, covered in weatherboarding on a stone plinth. This section has a central double doorway with a hood, flanked by smaller wood-framed openings with mullions and a stable door that has a slightly battered stone lintel. The rear of this section includes two tiers of small rectangular ventilation holes and opposing double doors, as well as two tiers of ventilation slits and a pitching door in the right gable end.
The left section, which is newer, has a continuous roof and is entirely made of stone. It features double boarded doors at both the front and rear, with ventilation slits in the adjoining bay to the right and matching slits at the rear. There are also small rectangular ventilators in the gable end facing the road.
The roof structure consists of collar and tie pegged trusses and three rows of trenched purlins. The right section has stone kerbs for the threshing floor, topped with timber coping and supported by unusually tall struts reaching up to the hood. The left section has four bays with similar trusses and kerbs but lacks wood and has a flag threshing floor.
Local climate
Barn at Pencelli Court 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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