Usk Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 28 August 1998. Row of cottages.
Usk Cottage
- WRENN ID
- waning-minaret-hawthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Brecon Beacons National Park
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 28 August 1998
- Type
- Row of cottages
- Address
- Usk Cottage, Cyffredyn, Llangynidr, Powys
- OS grid reference
- SO 165 198
- Coordinates
- 51.87064, -3.21382
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Usk Cottage is a row of three two-storey cottages built from whitewashed rubble sandstone with a slate roof. The cottages have double fronts on the center and left, while the right cottage is single fronted. There is a stone stack located between the center and right cottages, and an external stack on the left. Each cottage features boarded doors and 9-pane Breconshire windows in their original openings. At the left end, there is an added one-storey projection made of rubble stone with a slate roof.
Local climate
Usk Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,100 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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