Penpentre House is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 3 August 1987. House.

Penpentre House

WRENN ID
ruined-courtyard-starling
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Brecon Beacons National Park
Constituency
Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
3 August 1987
Type
House
Address
Penpentre House, Defynnog, Maescar, Powys
OS grid reference
SN 926 276
Coordinates
51.93703, -3.56228
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Penpentre House is a house built of painted rubble stone, which was formerly lined with stucco to resemble ashlar. It features a deep-eaved slate roof that overhangs at the gable verges and has rendered end-wall stacks. The house has three storeys and a three-window range of small paned windows, which have stone voussoirs and stone sills. The top windows are 9-pane, Brecon hopper type, while the others are hornless sliding sashes, with 12 panes on the first floor and 16 panes below. The central door has stone voussoirs and is a half-glazed door. There was previously a pitched hood over an open porch with ornamental bargeboards and finials, but this was removed in 1987. The rear of the house has a whitewashed outshut.

In front, there is a terraced forecourt with a retaining wall made of squared stone, topped with wrought iron railings featuring scrolled finials and cast-iron urns on the stanchions. Three stone steps lead up to a wrought iron gate.

The interior was not inspected, but in 1987 it was noted to have a central corridor plan with a rear dog-leg timber staircase featuring moulded balusters. The interior also included late Georgian details such as six-panel doors, shutters, and moulded architraves.

Local climate

Penpentre House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,410 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 55 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 31 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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