8 Watergate is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 16 December 1976. House. 1 related planning application.
8 Watergate
- WRENN ID
- strange-beam-alder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Brecon Beacons National Park
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 16 December 1976
- Type
- House
- Address
- 8 Watergate, Powys, LD3 9AN
- OS grid reference
- SO 043 286
- Coordinates
- 51.94802, -3.39363
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
No. 8 Watergate is a pair of rendered houses with a plinth, featuring three windows in total. The elevation facing Watergate is three storeys high and showcases 19th-century details. It has a slate roof and brick chimney stacks. On the second floor, there are six-pane windows with heads at eaves level.
No. 8 has one window bay and is adorned with pilaster strips at the ends and a band between the first and ground floors. The window openings have moulded architraves, including a 12-pane hornless sash window on the first floor and a modern small-pane window to the right on the ground floor. To the left, there is a doorway flanked by stone panelled pilasters, with a frieze and cornice supported by brackets. At the northwest end, there is a structure with a lean-to slate roof and a half-glazed modern door facing Watergate.
Local climate
8 Watergate 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Radon risk assessment
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