Bridge House is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 14 August 1995. Cottage. 1 related planning application.

Bridge House

WRENN ID
sombre-courtyard-hawthorn
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
Cottage
Address
Bridge House, Talgarth, Powys, LD3 0PD
OS grid reference
SO 154 337
Coordinates
51.99571, -3.23293
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Bridge House is a terrace of early to mid 19th century cottages constructed from rubble stone and topped with slate roofs. The building consists of a pair of three-storey structures, with access to the first floor from Swan Path on the west side and to the ground floor from the river path on the east side. The entrance features a boarded door with a heavy frame, and the windows are irregularly placed, consisting of 9-pane designs with Brecon hoppers. There are brick gable stacks.

At the northwest end, there is an addition called Glanant, which is set back from the river frontage by approximately 1.2 meters. This section has a wide opening at river level that provides access to two parallel stone storage vaults. It includes a boarded door and a side window. The first floor features 6-pane sash windows, while the second floor has 4-pane windows. There is also a lean-to at the northwest end, which has a central door.

Local climate

Bridge 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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