Bristol House occupied by Davies Bros. Grocers is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 16 September 1991. A C19 House, shop.
Bristol House occupied by Davies Bros. Grocers
- WRENN ID
- odd-step-sedge
- 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, shop
- Address
- Bristol House occupied by Davies Bros. Grocers, 44 High Street, Builth
- OS grid reference
- SO 040 509
- Coordinates
- 52.14851, -3.40299
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Bristol House, occupied by Davies Bros. Grocers, is a three-storey building featuring a slate roof and a red brick chimney. The front is rendered brick, painted, with impressed quoins and raised architraves around the first-floor windows, while the rear showcases exposed red brick.
The building has a three-window front. The top floor includes three horned sash windows set beneath painted stone lintels. Between the first and second floors, there is raised lettering from the 19th century that reads "Bristol House." The first floor features a central round-arched window flanked by a pair of Venetian-type windows, each consisting of a larger round-headed window with smaller round-headed windows on either side.
On the ground floor, there are round-headed doorways at each end, each with a moulded surround and a semi-circular fanlight. The door on the left leads to a rear yard, while the door on the right provides access to accommodation above. Between the doors, there is a 19th-century double-fronted shopfront. This shopfront is supported by classically inspired pilasters with panels and medallions, which hold up a cornice on brackets and a fascia board. The central doorway is set back, featuring marginal glazing and an opening light above.
Local climate
Bristol House occupied by Davies Bros. Grocers 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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