Drovers Tea Rooms & Restaurant is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 16 September 1991. Tea rooms, restaurant.

Drovers Tea Rooms & Restaurant

WRENN ID
nether-railing-thistle
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
Tea rooms, restaurant
Address
Drovers Tea Rooms & Restaurant, 34-36 High Street, Builth
OS grid reference
SO 041 509
Coordinates
52.1488, -3.40244
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Drovers Tea Rooms & Restaurant is a two-storey building with a slate roof and a rubble masonry chimney that has been extended in red brick. The front and back walls are timber framed and covered with render, featuring some applied light timber framing. The wall at the west end, where the chimney is located, is made of rubble masonry.

The front of the building is asymmetrical, highlighted by a central gable that has a blocked small square window. On the first floor, there are four 12-pane horned sash windows set very shallowly. The design resembles a Victorian public house front, complete with a bracketed cornice above and a stepped plinth. To the right and left of the entrance door are three large small-pane tripartite sash windows, with a fixed window beside the passage entrance. The entrance features glazed double doors with a fanlight above. The right gable end has a very large projecting chimney. On the ground floor, to the left, there is a wide passage leading to the lane, with exposed beams overhead, and to the right, a narrow entrance door.

At the rear, there is some modern slate hanging on the first floor above the passage, along with a modern window frame. There is a long range constructed of brick and rubble stone that runs at right angles to the road, which formerly housed a brewery for the public house.

Inside, the building has exposed timber framing on the front wall and timber-framed partition walls.

Local climate

Drovers Tea Rooms & Restaurant 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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