Happy Union Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 3 September 2004. Public house.

Happy Union Inn

WRENN ID
veiled-cellar-aspen
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Powys
Constituency
Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
3 September 2004
Type
Public house
Address
Happy Union Inn, Abbey Cwmhir
OS grid reference
SO 054 712
Coordinates
52.33107, -3.38961
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Happy Union Inn is a two-storey, three-window public house built with a front of whitened brick, rubble-stone side walls, and a rendered rear. It features a hipped slate roof with sawtooth eaves and rebuilt brick stacks at both ends, along with a yellow-brick stack to the left of centre on the front roof slope. The central doorway has a half-glazed panelled door topped by a round head, with wood and plasterwork replacing the original fanlight. Above the door, there is a wooden sign board. The windows are 2-light small-pane iron-frame casements with Gothic glazing, set under segmental heads. The windows are arranged unevenly, with two to the right of the doorway and one to the left. The right end wall has inserted windows. At the rear, there is a single-storey wing with a stone ridge stack, and to the right of this wing, the main range has an iron-frame casement. The building has not been inspected.

Local climate

Happy Union Inn sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,090 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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