Ashford is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 17 December 1998. House.

Ashford

WRENN ID
vast-thatch-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
House
Address
Ashford, Llanddetti, Talybont-On-Usk, Powys
OS grid reference
SO 123 218
Coordinates
51.88798, -3.27488
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Ashford is a 19th-century house featuring a central entry plan. It has a service wing, coach house, and stable attached to the south side, along with two large cross wings and other small extensions added to the rear. A conservatory is located on the north side. The original house is constructed of rubble stone, rendered at the front and unrendered at the sides, with painted brick at the rear. The roof is covered with Welsh slate and has corniced stone stacks on the main building and brick stacks on the rear wings.

The main facade is three storeys high with a cellar and features a three-window range of Venetian windows on the first and ground floors. The central first-floor staircase window is a single round-arched sash. The second storey has three 3/3 pane cambered-headed sashes positioned just below the corniced eaves, and all windows are set in deep reveals. The central doorway is topped with a pediment hood supported by console brackets and has a semicircular overlight with radial glazing bars, accessed by stone steps.

To the left of the front wall, there is a segmental arch leading to the former stable courtyard, which adjoins the former stable coach house range that has a curved front corner and two Gothick windows. The rear elevation features large canted bay windows on each floor with cross-framed glazing. The garden is bordered by a fine stone wall and is terraced by the road.

Local climate

Ashford 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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