Former Talybont Railway Station is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 17 December 1998. Railway station.
Former Talybont Railway Station
- WRENN ID
- late-granite-onyx
- 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
- Railway station
- Address
- Former Talybont Railway Station, Talybont on Usk, Talybont-On-Usk, Powys
- OS grid reference
- SO 119 230
- Coordinates
- 51.89903, -3.2813
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The former Talybont Railway Station is a railway station that features a two-storey house on the right, accompanied by a small lower wing to the right and a former single-storey wing on the left that has been raised to include an attic storey. The building is constructed of coursed, occasionally snecked rockfaced stone with rockfaced dressings, including large quoins, diamond-shaped voussoirs, and lintel stones. It has a Welsh slate roof with grouped polygonal stacks at the ends and ridge, overhanging eaves, and decorative verges, along with mansard roofs on the wings.
The main facade presents a three-bay range of horned sash windows with bracketed sills. The windows are paired in the centre of the first floor and on either side of a former entrance bay that projects slightly; this former round-headed doorway has been altered to a window. To the left, the former wing is stepped back and features a very steeply pitched gabled porch, deep overhanging swept eaves with decorative bargeboards, a round-headed doorway, and small horned sash windows on the sides, along with a range of smaller sash windows. There is also a square-headed side entrance. At the rear, the dismantled railway runs alongside the building.
The interior has been converted to hostel accommodation.
Local climate
Former Talybont Railway Station 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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