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
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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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- 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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