10 Wheat Street is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 16 January 1952. A C19 Office. 1 related planning application.
10 Wheat Street
- WRENN ID
- haunted-rafter-tallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Brecon Beacons National Park
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 16 January 1952
- Type
- Office
- Address
- 10 Wheat Street, Powys, LD3 7DG
- OS grid reference
- SO 044 285
- Coordinates
- 51.94716, -3.39207
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
10 Wheat Street is a former house that has been converted into offices. The building features a cement-rendered front facing Wheat Street, consisting of three storeys and three windows. It has quoins and bands at the second and first floor levels, along with a plinth. The window openings are adorned with stuccoed architraves and contain sash windows with glazing bars; the second floor windows also have horns. On the ground floor, there is a central doorway flanked by pilasters and topped with a cornice, featuring fielded panelled reveals, a fanlight with tracery, and a fielded panelled door.
Inside, there are well-preserved contemporary interiors, including a 19th-century vestibule with a round-headed arch and six-panelled doors, as well as a contemporary staircase. The northwest ground floor room has an arched recess with a semi-elliptical head in the rear wall, and a window in the front wall with a fluted architrave and blocks at the angles, complete with shutters. The rear first floor room boasts a plaster ceiling with a rose and a fireplace featuring fluted pilasters and blocks at the angles. Additional period details are present on the first floor, including panelled doors.
Local climate
10 Wheat Street sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,260 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 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
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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