King's Head Stores is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 26 March 1985. House. 2 related planning applications.
King's Head Stores
- WRENN ID
- shifting-paling-bittern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 26 March 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- King's Head Stores, 44&45 High Street, Presteigne, LD8 2BE
- OS grid reference
- SO 313 644
- Coordinates
- 52.27379, -3.00718
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
King's Head Stores is a single U-plan building dating from the 18th century, featuring a slightly bowed frontage to the street. It is two stories tall with a basement at the front, which was formerly jettied over the ground floor on the left side. The exterior is roughcast on brick, with rubble on the side walls, and it has a slate roof that is hipped to the left end, where there are remains of a rubble stack in the end wall below. The front includes three 18th-century double-hung sash windows with glazing bars and flush timber frames. There is a 20th-century double shop front with curved leaded glazing on the left and a plain 19th-century double shop front on the right. A boarded door leads to a wide central entry to the yard. At the rear, there are low two-story ranges with roughcast walls and slate roofs, featuring arched braces to the timber-frame of the upper floor behind No. 45, which has close studding.
Local climate
King's Head Stores receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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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- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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