The Royal Oak is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 17 December 1998. Inn.
The Royal Oak
- WRENN ID
- tall-gateway-mist
- 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
- Inn
- Address
- The Royal Oak, Pencelli, Talybont-On-Usk, Powys
- OS grid reference
- SO 093 249
- Coordinates
- 51.91611, -3.31984
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Royal Oak is a village inn constructed of white painted stone rubble, featuring a roof that is partly slate and partly stone tile. The main two-storey section on the right has a Welsh slate roof with overhanging eaves, a ridge stack on the right, and a large external stack that is offset to the left. This external stack is partly incorporated into the lower single-storey wing on the left, which has a steeply pitched stone tile roof.
The main building has a range of four windows, each with nine-pane Breconshire hoppers and timber lintels. There is a shallow later gabled stone porch on the centre left, which has a Tudor style arch with a shallow hoodmould, kneelers made of narrow stones, and a stone tile roof. The ground floor features two similar windows and an altered window next to another doorway at the far right. The single-storey left wing includes a 12-pane hopper on the right and a casement window on the left.
The interior was not inspected at the time of the survey on 30th September 1997.
Local climate
The Royal Oak 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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