Wattstown Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Rhondda Cynon Taf local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 27 September 1996. Chapel.
Wattstown Hotel
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rhondda Cynon Taf
- Constituency
- Rhondda and Ogmore MP: Chris Bryant (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 27 September 1996
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Wattstown Hotel, Ynyshir, Rhondda Cynon Taff, CF39 0PB
- OS grid reference
- ST 018 937
- Coordinates
- 51.63407, -3.41935
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Wattstown Hotel is a three-storey rectangular building constructed of coursed rockfaced sandstone with yellow brick dressings and chimneys topped with yellow pots. It features a Welsh slate roof, which has end stacks, one of which is now missing, and a central front stack that is rendered on the sides.
The building has five windows across the front. On the first floor, there are four-pane margin glazed sashes with decorative yellow brick surrounds, stone keystones, and flush sills, with ventilator grilles between the sills. The smaller windows above are similar in style. The ground floor mainly features eight-pane sashes with glazing bars of unequal thickness, and to the right, there is a cambered arched doorway with a four-panelled margin glazed door and an engraved glass overlight that reads 'The Wattstown Hotel'.
The right side of the building is rendered and includes one small margin glazed light and one later inserted window. The left side has a two-window range of mostly margin glazed horned sashes, with a central doorway that has a renewed door. At the rear, there is a shallow rendered cross wing that is three storeys on one side and two storeys on the other.
Inside, the hotel mostly retains its original layout, featuring a central hall and staircase. Many original furnishings are still present, including shutters, moulded door surrounds, four-panelled doors, glazed swing doors, some dado rails, ceiling mouldings, and a black marble fireplace.
Local climate
Wattstown Hotel sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,150 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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