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

Pen Cefyl

WRENN ID
ancient-rotunda-vale
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Monmouthshire
Constituency
Monmouthshire MP: Catherine Fookes (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
9 December 2005
Type
Terraced cottages
Address
Pen Cefyl, Llanover, Abergavenny
OS grid reference
SO 314 079
Coordinates
51.76617, -2.99476
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Pen Cefyl is a building consisting of Nos. 1-3, which are three connected houses. It is constructed from local random rubble that has been painted over, topped with a natural slate roof. The structure is two storeys high and features a double depth plan, originally designed as four single-window cottages in a terrace. The middle houses have paired central entrances, while the end houses have entrances in the outer bays, resulting in a ground floor arrangement of doors and windows as follows: D : W : W : D : D : W : W : D. The entrances consist of four-panel doors with small slated hoods supported by brackets, paired in the center. The ground floor windows are 8 over 8 pane sashes, while the upper floor windows 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, featuring paired stone stacks 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 seen during the resurvey, but it is expected 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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