Community Centre, including Boundary and Retaining Walls is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 16 December 1976. Community centre.

Community Centre, including Boundary and Retaining Walls

WRENN ID
shadowed-marble-wagtail
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Brecon Beacons National Park
Constituency
Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
16 December 1976
Type
Community centre
Address
Community Centre, including Boundary and Retaining Walls, Powys
OS grid reference
SO 043 290
Coordinates
51.95211, -3.39288
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The building is a former school and school house designed in the Gothic style, constructed with stone walls and a slate roof. It is raised above street level on an embankment that is enclosed by stone retaining walls. The former school house is two storeys high and consists of three bays. Some of the windows feature columned mullions. At the north end, there is a wider gabled bay with a window that has two pointed-headed lights, a columned mullion, and a pointed relieving arch on the first floor. Below, there is a flat-arched window with three lights and columned mullions. The middle bay contains a doorway with a pointed head. The southern bay has a single sash window above and a flat-arched window with two lights and a columned mullion below.

There is also a one-storey wing at the south end that connects the former school house and school, featuring two windows and a ledged door in its front wall. This wing is accessible from the pavement via a flight of stone steps. The former school block has a gabled roof oriented on an east-west axis, with a gabled end facing Pendre that includes a bargeboard and a belcot. It has a window with two cusped-headed lights and a cinquefoil above. The south elevation features gables with three tall transomed two-light windows that have cusped heads, quatrefoils, and dripstones. The window in the east gable mirrors that of the west. There is a block at right angles that includes a broad doorway.

Local climate

Community Centre, including Boundary and Retaining Walls sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,170 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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