Cosy Corner Tea Rooms is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 16 September 1991. House. 1 related planning application.

Cosy Corner Tea Rooms

WRENN ID
peeling-rood-bittern
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Powys
Constituency
Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
16 September 1991
Type
House
Address
Cosy Corner Tea Rooms, 55 High Street, Builth, LD2 3AB
OS grid reference
SO 040 509
Coordinates
52.14839, -3.40361
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Cosy Corner Tea Rooms is a building dating from the late 18th century to early 19th century. It features slate roofs and a rubble chimney that has been raised with yellow brick. The walls are made of painted rubble masonry, and there are timber studded partitions inside.

Originally, the building consisted of two premises, with a shop on the left and a former dwelling on the right. The double-fronted shopfront has small-paned windows on either side of panelled double doors that have inserted glazing. Above this, there is a fascia and cornice, with narrow pilasters at each end. On the first floor, there are two tall windows with 12 panes, which are modern replacements for the original 12-pane sashes that are documented in old photographs.

The former dwelling is set at an angle to follow the street line. It has two windows on the first floor that match those of the shop. On the ground floor, there is one similar window to the left, and to the right of this, there is a panelled entrance door with six panels, along with a boarded door that leads to a rear yard via a passageway on the right, which also features a timber studded partition.

At the rear of the building, there are 20th-century extensions and outbuildings. Inside, the building retains its studded timber partitions.

Local climate

Cosy Corner Tea Rooms sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,080 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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