Former skittle alley and tea-room is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 17 December 1998. Former skittle alley, tea-room. 1 related planning application.

Former skittle alley and tea-room

WRENN ID
tilted-brick-bramble
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
Former skittle alley, tea-room
Address
Former skittle alley and tea-room, Talybont on Usk, Talybont-On-Usk, Powys, LD3 7YX
OS grid reference
SO 113 226
Coordinates
51.89506, -3.28916
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The building is a former skittle alley and tea-room, situated between the canal embankment and the village street. It is a long, narrow structure made of red brick in English bond, topped with a Welsh slate roof and terracotta ridge tiles. The building has two storeys and features a range of margin glazed horned sash windows with brick sills on the first floor. The former doors leading to a verandah have been converted into windows. On the ground floor, there are wide cambered arched windows with small pane glazed heads, along with doorways that have four-panelled doors on either side. There are shallow pilaster supports for the former verandah and tethering rings set into the brickwork. To the right, there is a lower single pitch roof extension. The building has been converted into a store.

Local climate

Former skittle alley and tea-room 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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