Little Orchard is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 17 December 1998. Cottage.
Little Orchard
- WRENN ID
- shifting-grate-peregrine
- 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
- Cottage
- Address
- Little Orchard, Buckland, Talybont-On-Usk, Powys
- OS grid reference
- SO 135 217
- Coordinates
- 51.88775, -3.25818
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Little Orchard is a distinctive estate cottage built of stone rubble with tooled stone dressings, featuring large quoins. The cottage has a stone tile roof with end stacks and a high, lengthened rear kitchen stack, all adorned with cornices. It has deeply overhanging eaves and decorative bargeboards. The main unit has a central entry, with a two-storey rear outshut that steps back to the left, and a further single-storey outshut that steps down to the left. The three roofs at the rear form a continuous slope, slightly stepped at each eaves level.
At the front and sides, there is a hipped verandah with a stone-tiled roof, supported by wooden posts, and it features glazed rooflights above the front windows. The main frontage displays a three-window range of 3/6 pane sashes with tooled voussoirs, and there are similar windows on the ground floor on either side of a central doorway, which has a planked door that is partially glazed. Casement windows are present on the sides, along with a door leading to the garden.
Local climate
Little Orchard 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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