1 Lower Cross Oak Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 17 December 1998. House.
1 Lower Cross Oak Cottages
- WRENN ID
- heavy-granite-starling
- 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
- House
- Address
- 1 Lower Cross Oak Cottages, Talybont-On-Usk, Powys
- OS grid reference
- SO 107 236
- Coordinates
- 51.90397, -3.29818
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
1 Lower Cross Oak Cottages is part of an L-shaped range of three cottages, which were formerly a range of four or five cottages facing north and east. This property is the house located at the western end of the northern range. It is constructed of stone rubble, roughcast, and colourwashed, topped with a stone tile roof and featuring coursed stone end stacks with narrow cornices.
The main front has one storey and an attic, with a two-window arrangement of lattice leaded casements with stone sills on either side of a plain cambered central doorway that has a boarded stable-type door, with dormers above. To the right, there is a rear extension wing that has a hipped slate roof. To the left, a two-storey wing steps forward, featuring a Welsh slate roof that is stone tiled at the rear, with swept eaves and a shared stack. This wing has two half dormers with six-pane casements; on the ground floor, there is a wide lintel infilled below, and to the left, a cambered arched window. The frontage is complemented by a cobbled strip.
The interior was not inspected at the time of the survey on 23rd October 1997.
Local climate
1 Lower Cross Oak Cottages 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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- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1999
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