The Oystercatcher Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Bridgend local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 29 January 1998. A Early Modern Public house.
The Oystercatcher Public House
- WRENN ID
- haunted-footing-elder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bridgend
- Constituency
- Bridgend MP: Chris Elmore (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 29 January 1998
- Type
- Public house
- Period
- Early Modern
- Address
- The Oystercatcher Public House, Laleston
- OS grid reference
- SS 876 798
- Coordinates
- 51.50609, -3.6202
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Oystercatcher Public House is a two-storey inn with a long street frontage of six bays. The left bay is pebbledashed, while the remaining bays are rendered and painted, with limewashed stone rubble at the rear. The roof is made of artificial slate and features rendered end stacks. The windows, which are all 6/6 pane sashes, are set in deep reveals that highlight the thickness of the masonry. Most of the windows are unhorned and have sills, with painted relief surrounds and moulded shallow hoods on the first floor, except for the far left window, which has a cambered head. The ground floor has similar windows without hoods, and there are moulded vertical bands at each corner of the building. The central doorway has a similar surround and features a remodelled double door with an overlight. There is a deep plinth by the door and a battered base to the right. Additionally, there is a round-arched doorway with a chamfered surround and a boarded door in the left end bay. To the right, there is a recessed single-storey wing, and the rear has outshuts with few windows and access to the cellar.
Some surviving features noted by the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales in 1972 are no longer visible. The interior is now open to the left end, and the main fireplace dates from around 1700. The interior retains some 19th-century boarded dados, doors, and window seats.
Local climate
The Oystercatcher Public House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,190 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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