Talachddu House including outbuilding range to right is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 31 March 2005. House.
Talachddu House including outbuilding range to right
- WRENN ID
- tall-pinnacle-dawn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 31 March 2005
- Type
- House
- Address
- Talachddu House including outbuilding range to right, Brecon, Felin-Fach
- OS grid reference
- SO 081 331
- Coordinates
- 51.98896, -3.33958
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Talachddu House, a former rectory, is built from coursed squared stone with white lime joints, topped with a concrete tile roof and featuring stone end stacks. The building stands three storeys tall and has a three-window range, highlighted by a central pedimental gable and string courses. The top floor includes outer 9-pane sash windows under the eaves and a central arched sash window that extends into the gable, adorned with radiating bars and stone voussoirs. A sill course runs along this level. On the first floor, there are three 12-pane sash windows, also with stone voussoirs. The ground floor features three early 20th-century canted bays arranged in a 1-3-1 light configuration, with small-paned glazing comprising casements and top-lights. A door is positioned between the centre and right windows, with a continuous slate roof that is hipped at the ends. The right end wall is roughcast.
To the left, there is a later 20th-century two-storey, one-bay roughcast addition, which includes a 12-pane sash window above the door and a triple casement window. The rear of the building is roughcast and was altered in the earlier 20th century, featuring an added one-storey and attic rear gabled projection.
Adjacent to the house is a single-storey outbuilding constructed from painted rubble stone. This outbuilding has a door on the left, followed by a triple casement window with stone voussoirs, and a large opening with a 20th-century rendered head. There is a straight joint leading to an added eastern end that has a door at the front. The eastern gable of the outbuilding features cambered-headed openings on each floor, with stone voussoirs, a boarded door above, and a pair of casement windows below.
The interior of Talachddu House has not been inspected.
Local climate
Talachddu House including outbuilding range to right sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,100 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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