Usk House is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 16 December 1976. Country house.
Usk House
- WRENN ID
- quiet-brick-bittern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Brecon Beacons National Park
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 16 December 1976
- Type
- Country house
- Address
- Usk House, Powys
- OS grid reference
- SO 042 286
- Coordinates
- 51.9477, -3.39455
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Usk House is a stone building dating from the 18th century. It stands two storeys high and features two windows facing Bridge Street. The roof is pyramidal and covered with slate, and there are two tall stone chimneys. The front wall is faced with stone laid in regular courses, with larger blocks used for the quoins and window dressings. The building has four-pane sash windows, with two on the first floor and one to the left below. To the right below, there is a doorway framed by dressed stone pilasters and an entablature, leading to a four-panelled door topped with a rectangular fanlight. At the rear, there is a lower two-storey block that extends at right angles, which has four windows and is constructed of stone with red brick dressings and a slate roof, also featuring four-pane sash windows.
Local climate
Usk House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,260 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 56 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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