Town Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 24 September 1985. Town hall. 3 related planning applications.
Town Hall
- WRENN ID
- lapsed-outpost-furze
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Brecon Beacons National Park
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 24 September 1985
- Type
- Town hall
- Address
- Town Hall, Talgarth, Powys, LD3 0BW
- OS grid reference
- SO 155 337
- Coordinates
- 51.99571, -3.23207
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Town Hall is a 19th-century building constructed of rubble stone with a slate roof. The ground floor features an opening to the square that serves as a bus shelter, with public conveniences located inside. Above the shelter, the two-storey gable end has three windows with fixed metal 20-pane glazing, the central window being pivot hung. The window openings are framed with dressed quoins and feature alternating black and yellow brick voussoirs. The building has plain bargeboards and a quarter hipped roof. Atop the roof is a square clock turret with an open stage and an ogee lead-clad roof that culminates in a finial.
The side elevation consists of two storeys with five window bays that contain similar windows. On the eastern side, an external stair from The Bank provides access to a 1994 upper floor wing, which has replaced the 18th-century railings from Tregunter House. This wing is connected by a glazed link to a 20th-century rendered rear service block, which also has a slated roof.
Inside, the hall is divided into five bays by hammer-beam trusses supported on stone corbels, with tension bars and a single tier of purlins. There is a stage in the southern end bay, and a square opening in the gable end has been blocked since the addition of the belltower.
Local climate
Town Hall sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2002
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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