Latham House is a Grade II* listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 July 1963. House.

Latham House

WRENN ID
wild-fireplace-grain
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Brecon Beacons National Park
Constituency
Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
19 July 1963
Type
House
Address
Latham House, 24 High Street, Crickhowell, Powys, NP8 1BE
OS grid reference
SO 217 183
Coordinates
51.85825, -3.13793
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Latham House is a fine Georgian building dating from the 18th century. It is a three-storey structure with a three-window rubble front and a slate roof, featuring raised coved plaster eaves and cement render chimney stacks. The building has four-light sash windows, with 12 panes on the second floor and 16 panes with damaged cornices on the first and ground floors. The central entrance is framed by an open-pedimented doorcase that showcases classical details in the cornice and entablature, supported by plain pilasters. The arched entrance includes a recessed six-panel door and a fanlight with intersecting glazing bars.

To the right, there is a cement render twin gabled end wall, with an asymmetrical front gable due to the raised eaves, modern windows, and a ground floor extension. The rear features scribed cement render with a parallel range that has 19th-century alterations, boxed eaves, and advanced bay windows that are splayed at the ground floor, equipped with sash glazing.

The front of the house is adorned with cast iron railings topped with dagger finials. Inside, the property retains chamfered cross beams, an original staircase, acanthus cornices, and a fanlight on the first floor landing with barley twist glazing bars. The roof has overlapping purlins, and there is a late medieval fireplace on the ground floor that may have originally been part of the Castle.

Local climate

Latham House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,020 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% 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 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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