Talbot House is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 25 September 1986. House. 2 related planning applications.
Talbot House
- WRENN ID
- lesser-plinth-blackthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Brecon Beacons National Park
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 25 September 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Talbot House, 2 Bridge Street, Crickhowell, Powys, NP8 1AR
- OS grid reference
- SO 215 182
- Coordinates
- 51.85715, -3.14043
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Talbot House is an early 19th century building of simple classical design. It is two storeys high with a basement, and is constructed of roughcast. The front has a plinth, a slate roof, and a brick chimney stack. A recessed nine-pane sash window sits on the second floor, featuring a fluted keystone. Below this are a pair of eight-pane sash windows, and to the right, a six-panel door with a fanlight above it. An attic window is visible on the roughcast left end wall. The rear of the building is roughcast and features a two-storey and attic cross gable. It has sash windows and a roughcast chimney stack.
Local climate
Talbot House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,020 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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