Former Counting House is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 17 December 1998. Toll-house.
Former Counting House
- WRENN ID
- gilded-cobble-aspen
- 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
- Toll-house
- Address
- Former Counting House, Talybont on Usk, Talybont-On-Usk, Powys
- OS grid reference
- SO 117 223
- Coordinates
- 51.8927, -3.28378
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Former Counting House is a small building designed in a toll-house style, situated on the canal bank. It is constructed of stone rubble and features a Welsh slate roof with decorative bargeboards and a large square axial stack. The building is a single-storey structure with one room at the roadside, while it has two storeys at canal level. It includes a pointed arched window with Gothick glazing in the gable end facing the road, along with a former doorway that has been converted into a window, which includes an inset stone seat beside it, facing the former tramroad. There are timber additions to the side and rear of the building. It has been converted into a dwelling.
Local climate
Former Counting House 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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