Ashburnham House is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 14 August 1995. Residential.
Ashburnham House
- WRENN ID
- quartered-tower-candle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Brecon Beacons National Park
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 14 August 1995
- Type
- Residential
- Address
- Ashburnham House, Talgarth, Powys
- OS grid reference
- SO 154 337
- Coordinates
- 51.9954, -3.23323
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Ashburnham House is a three-storey building featuring a pebbledashed facade with large rendered quoins and a slate roof. The structure has four window bays, with a quoined door located in the third bay. This door is recessed and has a canopy above it, along with a half-glazed design and a 4-paned overlight. Each side of the door are tripartite 12-pane sash windows, and there is a narrow plate glass sash window in the left end bay, which also includes a secondary glazed door. On the second floor, there are 12-paned sashes and 9-pane square sashes, all of which are adorned with moulded plaster architraves and stone sills. The building features paired modillion panelled eaves and gable stacks, with a long stair window on the right gable. Additionally, there is an added stack to the rear and a rear extension.
Local climate
Ashburnham House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1995
- No related consent applications matched
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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