Corner Shop is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 31 July 1995. Shop.
Corner Shop
- WRENN ID
- lone-lime-saffron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 31 July 1995
- Type
- Shop
- Address
- Corner Shop, Rhayader
- OS grid reference
- SN 971 679
- Coordinates
- 52.30045, -3.51012
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
This corner shop is a Grade II listed building featuring a timber frame with weatherboarding, along with some painted and applied half-timbering over the boarding. It has an old slate roof made of pegged slates arranged in diminishing courses. The building is one storey plus an attic.
The gable end facing East Street has a square upper window, which is a Yorkshire sash, and on the ground floor, there is a later 19th-century shopfront that includes end pilasters, a bracketed cornice, and central double-leaf glazed doors with a window on each side. The elevation facing South Street features a gabled dormer towards the south. On the ground floor, there are two 19th-century shop windows with end pilasters and a cornice.
Local climate
Corner Shop sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,160 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 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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