Oxford House is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 16 January 1952. House. 1 related planning application.

Oxford House

WRENN ID
over-pilaster-summer
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 January 1952
Type
House
Address
Oxford House, 40 the Watton, Powys, LD3 7EP
OS grid reference
SO 046 283
Coordinates
51.94567, -3.38805
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Oxford House is a three-storey house with an attic, constructed of stone and faced in pebbledash. It features a five-bay elevation facing The Watton, which is slightly offset to the right. The central top floor window is misaligned with the window below it. The building has rusticated quoins at the ends and rusticated architraves made of ashlar, along with band courses and a plinth. The second floor has nine-pane sash windows that are three panes wide, while the first and ground floors have 12-pane sash windows.

On the ground floor, there is a blocked doorway at the left end. In the center, there is a fine semi-circular and pedimented doorcase with fluted and capped pilasters, a semi-circular fanlight with tracery, and fielded panelled doors with reveals.

Inside, there is an arch with a panelled soffit at the entrance to the staircase hall. The staircase, dating from the late 18th century to early 19th century, features iron balusters with a rosette motif and a wooden balustrade. A tall round-headed staircase window has Gothic glazing. The front northwest ground floor room boasts heavy moulded cornices and a moulded arch in the southwest wall. The attic window in the southeast wall includes a semi-circular fanlight with thick wooden radiating tracery above a two-light casement below. The floors are made of thick floorboards.

Local climate

Oxford House 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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