West House is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 1 February 1988. Bank.
West House
- WRENN ID
- gilded-forge-pearl
- 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
- Bank
- Address
- West House, Hay, Powys
- OS grid reference
- SO 229 425
- Coordinates
- 52.07569, -3.12555
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
West House is a 2-storey and attic building with a 2-window whitewashed rubble front and a plinth. It features a slate roof with swept dentil eaves and a rubble chimney stack that has been heightened in brick on the left side. There is a modern flat roof 4-light dormer, Georgian 16-pane sash windows on the first floor, and two Victorian sashes without glazing bars on the ground floor, next to a 6-panel part-glazed door that is sheltered by a bracketed hood. All openings have lintels. At the rear, there is a parallel range with a hipped roof and a whitewashed brick cross range to the right.
Inside, the building retains a broad dog-leg staircase with square newels, turned balusters, a moulded handrail, and a closed string. The roof trusses are preserved with outside purlins, and there are wide boarded floors, although the cross beams are not chamfered.
Local climate
West House 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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