4 Watergate is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 16 December 1976. House.
4 Watergate
- WRENN ID
- frozen-transept-wax
- 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
- 4 Watergate, Powys
- OS grid reference
- SO 043 286
- Coordinates
- 51.94802, -3.39332
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
4 Watergate is a row of four three-storey buildings, numbered 4, 5, 6, and 7. Nos. 4 and 5 feature convex facades. The buildings have a slate hipped roof with overhanging eaves. No. 6 is finished in pebbledash, while Nos. 4 and 5 have scribed render, and No. 7 has smooth render. There is a band at the first floor sill level, along with end pilasters and a plinth. The second floor has square six-pane hopper windows, and the first floor features twelve-pane sash windows. On the ground floor, Nos. 5, 6, and 7 each have a tripartite small-pane sash window, with No. 6 having a moulded architrave. The doorways are located to the left in Nos. 5 and 7, and to the right in No. 6.
No. 4 has a reproduction early 19th-century shopfront on the ground floor, which includes a half-glazed door set between two small-pane shop windows, all enclosed by pilasters and topped with a fascia and cornice.
Local climate
4 Watergate 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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