Weighbridge Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 30 January 2006. Cottage.

Weighbridge Cottage

WRENN ID
iron-marble-reed
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Brecon Beacons National Park
Constituency
Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
30 January 2006
Type
Cottage
Address
Weighbridge Cottage, Talybont-On-Usk, Powys, LD3 7JD
OS grid reference
SO 114 224
Coordinates
51.89362, -3.28874
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Weighbridge Cottage is a two-storey cottage that faces the line of a former tramroad. It is constructed of brown stone and features a modern corrugated roof on the right-hand section, which includes a small Gothic window at the upper level. On the ground floor, to the left, there is a camber-headed doorway with a boarded door, and to the right, a Gothic window. Additionally, there is a small Gothic window in the right return. To the left, there is a roofless section that has a fireplace at the rear and a large rectangular chimney, along with a doorway in the left return.

Local climate

Weighbridge Cottage 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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