Le Chateau (also known as Llan Wysg) is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 November 1998. House.

Le Chateau (also known as Llan Wysg)

WRENN ID
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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 November 1998
Type
House
Address
Le Chateau (also known as Llan Wysg), Glangrwyne, the Vale of Grwyney, Powys
OS grid reference
SO 231 168
Coordinates
51.84477, -3.11739
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Le Chateau, also known as Llan Wysg, is a one-storey house with an attic, built in a picturesque Gothic style. The structure features a main range with a central wing at the back and a tower offset to the right. It is constructed of coursed, rock-faced sandstone with larger quoins, and the roof is made of banded grey and red tiles, adorned with openwork barge boards and pendant finials. There is a tall stone stack to the right of the center and an external stack to the left of the main range, both featuring a recessed round-headed panel. The rear wing also has a similar ridge stack.

The main range has a symmetrical three-bay entrance front, with the central bay being advanced under a gable. The lower storey includes an arch with a two-centre head beneath a hood mould, leading into a porch that contains a half-lit door with mullioned lights. Above the arch is a shield displaying a dragon and the date of the building. The attic features a sill band and a two-light casement window with Y-tracery under a two-centred head and a hood mould. The outer bays have three-light windows in the lower storeys under hood moulds, and two-light half-dormers. The right gable end includes a V-shaped bay window in the lower storey and a two-light casement in the attic.

The tower is three-stage, square in plan in the lower stages, transitioning to octagonal in the upper stage. Above the modillion eaves is a conical lead spirelet. The upper stage contains narrow windows, the middle stage features a two-light casement with a sill band, and the lower storey has a half-lit door with a hood mould offset to the right. The wing has a two-light half-dormer on the right side wall and a two-light casement in the lower left, similar to the front. The building was not inspected at the time of the survey in December 1997.

Local climate

Le Chateau (also known as Llan Wysg) sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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