The Bear Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Carmarthenshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 26 February 1981. Corn mill. 3 related planning applications.
The Bear Inn
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Constituency
- Caerfyrddin MP: Ann Davies (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 26 February 1981
- Type
- Corn mill
- Address
- The Bear Inn, 10 Market Square, Llandovery, SA20 0AF
- OS grid reference
- SN 767 343
- Coordinates
- 51.99383, -3.79668
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Bear Inn is a two-storey inn with a three-bay original range facing east. It features a steep slate gabled roof and a red brick chimney on the left, with a shared roughcast stack on the right against the end of No 12. The building has slight eaves brackets and a painted roughcast facade, which includes long and short quoins, a plinth, and a central gable.
On the first floor, there is an unusual central Palladian window with a traceried coloured fanlight above a central sash window, flanked by five-pane horned sash windows on both sides. The ground floor has a central panelled door, with a single five-pane horned sash window to the left, which is aligned inward with the window above, and a pair of five-pane horned sash windows to the right.
At the corner, there is a lower range that has a canted southeast angle and a hipped slate roof with flat eaves. The east side features twelve-pane horned sash windows on both floors, while the canted corner has a four-panel door. The south elevation facing King's Road has a twelve-pane sash window above a tripartite hornless sash window with four, twelve, and four panes, which replaced 20th-century metal windows.
To the left, there is a single-storey range that includes two doors on the left and two windows: a twelve-pane sash and a tripartite four-twelve-four pane sash on the right, which is a remodelling of a 20th-century flat-roofed range with metal windows. The interior of the inn has been modernised.
Local climate
The Bear Inn sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,390 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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