1 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. Museum, court house.
1 The Watton
- WRENN ID
- old-lancet-furze
- 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
- Museum, court house
- Address
- 1 The Watton, Powys
- OS grid reference
- SO 049 282
- Coordinates
- 51.94444, -3.38445
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
1 The Watton is part of a group of six two-storey houses, each featuring a two-window front. The houses have slate roofs that are hipped at the right end of the group and are topped with brick stacks. The elevations are pebbledashed, with some sections painted, and there is a plinth.
No. 1 has two 12-pane horned sash windows on the first floor, and a similar window to the right on the ground floor. The doorway is to the left and features a doorcase with a bracketed cornice, leading to a six-panelled door with glazed upper panels. The right return of the house has a 12-pane sash window on the upper floor, positioned towards the rear.
Local climate
1 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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