2 The Watton is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 16 December 1976. Houses.
2 The Watton
- WRENN ID
- ragged-pewter-dawn
- 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
- Houses
- Address
- 2 The Watton, Powys, LD3 7ED
- OS grid reference
- SO 049 282
- Coordinates
- 51.94449, -3.38452
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
No. 2 The Watton is part of a group of six two-storey houses, each featuring a two-window front. The houses have slate roofs that are hipped at the right end of the group and include brick chimney stacks. The elevations are pebbledashed, with some sections painted, and there is a plinth.
Specifically, No. 2 has two 12-pane hornless sash windows with cambered heads on the first floor and a 4-pane horned sash window to the left on the ground floor. The doorway is to the right and features a doorcase with a bracketed cornice, along with a six-panelled door that has glazed upper panels.
Local climate
2 The Watton 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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