Hughes Outfitters is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 16 September 1991. Shop. 1 related planning application.
Hughes Outfitters
- WRENN ID
- stark-ashlar-azure
- 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
- Shop
- Address
- Hughes Outfitters, 26 High Street, Builth, LD2 3DL
- OS grid reference
- SO 041 510
- Coordinates
- 52.14897, -3.40217
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Hughes Outfitters is a three-storey building, likely dating to the 18th century. It has a slate roof with overhanging eaves at the front and a red brick chimney on the left side. The front of the building is smoothly rendered, with pilaster strips at the ends and a decorative band between the first and second floors. The east-facing gable end is constructed of rubble masonry with squared hammer-dressed quoins.
The building has a three-window front, with second-floor windows being 12-pane hornless sashes, 4 panes over 8, and first-floor windows being 16-pane hornless sashes. The windows have painted wooden surrounds and are set very shallow. A projecting shopfront, the full width of the building, occupies the ground floor. While partially obscured by an unsympathetic fascia board, the shopfront retains details characteristic of a late 19th-century front depicted in old photographs.
Local climate
Hughes Outfitters 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2006
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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