5 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.
5 Lower Cross Oak Cottages
- WRENN ID
- stark-ember-birch
- 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
- 5 Lower Cross Oak Cottages, Talybont-On-Usk, Powys
- OS grid reference
- SO 108 236
- Coordinates
- 51.904, -3.29785
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
5 Lower Cross Oak Cottages is a cottage located on the wing facing the canal, next to the larger main range at a right angle. It is constructed of rendered colourwashed stone and features a stone tile roof with overhanging eaves, a corniced ridge, and axial stacks made of coursed stone. The cottage is single storey with an attic on the right side (formerly number 5) and has two windows that consist of segmental arched metal-framed latticed casements with tooled sills for both the dormers and the ground floor. There is a similarly arched central doorway that has a stable-type boarded door. On the left side (formerly number 6), the far end of the cross range presents a two-storey cross-gabled street frontage with an entrance on the left-hand side and a similar single window range on the street elevation. The interior was not inspected at the time of the survey on 23rd October 1997.
Local climate
5 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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