The Elms is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 14 August 1995. Residential.
The Elms
- WRENN ID
- inner-kitchen-bistre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Brecon Beacons National Park
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 14 August 1995
- Type
- Residential
- Address
- The Elms, Talgarth, Powys
- OS grid reference
- SO 154 340
- Coordinates
- 51.99863, -3.23329
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Elms is a 17th-century building featuring Tyrolean render and color wash over stone, topped with a stone slate roof. It has one storey and an attic, with a longhouse plan consisting of two bays. In 1962, the building was extended to the left over the original cross passage to create a kitchen. A gabled porch leads to a later boarded door for the living room, and there is a half-glazed door on the gable end. The front has an ovolo moulded window with a splayed reveal, while the rear features a window with diamond mullions. The upper floor has a continuous dormer with four metal-framed windows, and there is a door at the rear. A large gable stack with offsets is present.
The entrance is positioned against the main axial stack, with a stair leading to the rear. Inside, there are cross beams with cut chamfered stops and a stud and panel partition, which is partly reset, leading to the inner room that contains a gable stack with an oven. The building features three raised or upper cruck frames, with two closely spaced over the living room, and includes a morticed and pegged collar, with the blades trenched for a single tier of purlins. According to Jones and Smith, the first floor was originally undivided.
Local climate
The Elms sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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