8 The Watton is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 16 December 1976. House.
8 The Watton
- WRENN ID
- outer-alcove-sable
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Brecon Beacons National Park
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 16 December 1976
- Type
- House
- Address
- 8 The Watton, Powys
- OS grid reference
- SO 048 282
- Coordinates
- 51.94467, -3.38502
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Nos. 7 and 8 The Watton is a three-storey building with a five-bay street facade made of painted brick. It features stuccoed end pilasters, a first-floor band, a plinth, and rusticated architraves with keystones around the window openings. The doorways are also stuccoed and have bracketed cornices. The building has a slate roof with projecting eaves and a brick stack on the left side only. Each house has two bays in width, with doorways located in the inner bays. The doors are six-panelled and have rectangular fanlights with tracery. In the centre bay, the only opening on the ground floor is a carriageway with a 3-centred arch and boarded double doors. No. 8 features square six-pane sash windows on the upper floor, twelve-pane sashes on the first floor, and a large six-pane sash window on the left side of the ground floor.
Local climate
8 The Watton sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,260 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 56 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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