3 Lower Cross Oak Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 17 December 1998. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.

3 Lower Cross Oak Cottages

WRENN ID
forgotten-rood-dale
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Brecon Beacons National Park
Constituency
Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
17 December 1998
Type
Cottage
Address
3 Lower Cross Oak Cottages, Talybont-On-Usk, Powys, LD3 7UQ
OS grid reference
SO 107 236
Coordinates
51.90406, -3.29804
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

3 Lower Cross Oak Cottages is a Grade II listed building located at the junction of an L-shaped range of three cottages, which were formerly four or five. This property includes the former number 3 at the eastern end of the northern range and the former number 4 at the northern end of the eastern range. Number 3 is the largest house in the group and is constructed of colourwashed roughcast stone rubble with a Welsh slate roof featuring swept eaves. It has a corniced coursed stone end stack on the left and another wide, shared stack on the right. The building has two storeys, an attic, and a cellar.

The front facade has a three-window range of 6/6 pane sashes with shallow sills, and a central doorway with a six-panelled door and a rectangular overlight, both adorned with keystones. The gable end facing the road includes windows at both attic and cellar levels. Former number 4 is a single storey with an attic, featuring a two-window range of segmental arched latticed metal-framed casements in the dormers and on the ground floor, flanking a similarly arched central doorway with a stable-type boarded door. The interior was not inspected at the time of the survey on 23rd October 1997.

Local climate

3 Lower Cross Oak Cottages sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,180 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 57 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 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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