Gwernvale Manor Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 July 1963. Hotel.
Gwernvale Manor Hotel
- WRENN ID
- waiting-corner-holly
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Brecon Beacons National Park
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 19 July 1963
- Type
- Hotel
- Address
- Gwernvale Manor Hotel, Crickhowell, Powys
- OS grid reference
- SO 213 193
- Coordinates
- 51.86751, -3.14418
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Gwernvale Manor Hotel is a 2-storey building with a stucco front, featuring cill bands and a hipped slate roof. The cement render chimney stacks and wide bracket eaves add to its character. The northwest entrance front has three windows, showcasing tall recessed 12-pane sash windows, with one on the left extending to ground level. A central broad classical porch, which was formerly open and had a higher roof line, is supported by six Tuscan columns, with an entablature frieze above. The southwest front has an advanced segmental bow with five windows; the first-floor sash windows match those on the main front, while the ground-floor windows extend to ground level. The eastern front has been altered with a modern extension but still retains one sash window.
Adjoining the northwest angle is a range dated 1911, which has a 2-storey roughcast front and a hipped slate roof with bracket eaves. It features two modern windows on the southwest side above a later lean-to arcade, and cross frame windows on the end wall with hood moulds on the ground floor.
Inside, the hotel retains classical detailing on the ground floor, including segmental arches with panelled soffits and pilasters leading to rooms off the hall. The hall contains an open well staircase with a large oval patera on the ceiling, adorned with an acanthus cornice. The drawing room features fluted Corinthian columns and an arabesque cornice, along with a blocked Venetian window at the southeast end.
Local climate
Gwernvale Manor Hotel sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,020 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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