Pen-y-Stair is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 17 May 2004. House.
Pen-y-Stair
- WRENN ID
- open-vault-sparrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Brecon Beacons National Park
- Constituency
- Monmouthshire MP: Catherine Fookes (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 17 May 2004
- Type
- House
- Address
- Pen-y-Stair, Pentre Hill, Goetre Fawr, Monmouthshire
- OS grid reference
- SO 304 058
- Coordinates
- 51.74698, -3.00824
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Pen-y-Stair is a stone house dating from the 18th century, consisting of one-and-a-half storeys and featuring a roof covered with imitation stone slates. The building is arranged in three blocks. The central section includes a chimney on the left side and three gabled dormers, along with two square windows on the ground floor. There is a doorway on the left side, situated near a recessed lower block that has its own doorway and window on the left, as well as a gable end with a projecting chimney, a window at the upper level to the right, and a door below.
At the right end of the house, there is a lower recessed block that contains a doorway and a single window on each floor. Inside, the main block features a joist-beam ceiling and a large open fireplace, with a winding stair located to the right. The principal roof structure of the main block remains intact.
Local climate
Pen-y-Stair receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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