Watton Mount is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 31 May 1961. Shop, apartment.

Watton Mount

WRENN ID
twisted-spire-clover
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Brecon Beacons National Park
Constituency
Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
31 May 1961
Type
Shop, apartment
Address
Watton Mount, Powys, LD3 7AU
OS grid reference
SO 046 284
Coordinates
51.94638, -3.3887
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Watton Mount is a former house with a cement rendered facade, which is largely covered in ivy. The building has four storeys and five windows, with the lower floors featuring rusticated detailing. It has a hipped slate roof and small-pane sash windows that are set in moulded architraves on the second and third floors. The central bay features a high portico that is raised on a stone plinth, with an entrance on the ground floor beneath a balcony at the first-floor level within the portico. The ground floor door is a four-panelled design with a semi-circular light above that has Gothic tracery. The left side of the building has one small-pane sash window on each floor, positioned towards the rear. The rear elevation has four windows with stone architraves; the ground floor is finished in scribed render, while the upper floors are pebbledashed. The third bay from the left has stair windows located between the floors.

The interior has been largely modernised, but the northwest room on the first floor retains a panelled door with a panelled architrave and panelled shutters. There is also a contemporary staircase that rises in a curve, featuring plain wood balusters.

Local climate

Watton Mount sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,260 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 82% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 56 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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