Pen Cefyl is a Grade II listed building in the Monmouthshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 9 December 2005. Cottage.

Pen Cefyl

WRENN ID
lesser-hammer-reed
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Monmouthshire
Constituency
Monmouthshire MP: Catherine Fookes (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
9 December 2005
Type
Cottage
Address
Pen Cefyl, Llanover, Abergavenny
OS grid reference
SO 314 079
Coordinates
51.76612, -2.99467
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Pen Cefyl is a building consisting of three consecutive houses, constructed from local random rubble that has been painted over, with a natural slate roof. It is two storeys high and has a double depth plan, originally designed as four single-window cottages in a terrace. The central entrances serve the middle houses, while the end houses have entrances in the outer bays, resulting in a ground floor layout of D : W : W : D : D : W : W : D. Each house features four-panel doors with small slated hoods supported by brackets, paired in the center. The windows on the ground floor are 8 over 8 pane sashes, while those on the upper floor are 4 over 8 pane sashes. Above the central doors, there is a painting flanked by painted boards that read "LLYTHYRDY RHYD-Y-MEIRCH" and "POST OFFICE LLANOVER." The roof is plain, with a paired stone stack positioned between each pair of houses. The right return gable has three modern casement windows. The rear elevation is partially visible, showing that each house has a small two-storey wing. The interior was not inspected during the resurvey, but it is likely that the houses have very small rooms.

Local climate

Pen Cefyl receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% 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 45 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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