Fine Fare is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 1 February 1988. House. 3 related planning applications.
Fine Fare
- WRENN ID
- narrow-cloister-sunrise
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Brecon Beacons National Park
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 1 February 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Fine Fare, 26 Castle Street, Hay, Powys, HR3 5DF
- OS grid reference
- SO 228 423
- Coordinates
- 52.07382, -3.12689
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Fine Fare is a two-storey building with an attic, featuring a two-window rendered front and a high plinth. It has a slate roof and brick chimney stacks, with a swept roof dormer located at the center. The first floor has recessed 12-pane sash windows, while the ground floor has later sash glazing in splayed bays, flanked by moulded cornices beside an off-centre modern door that has a bracket hood.
The right end of the building is constructed from whitewashed rubble with a slightly battered base, set into the slope of the back fold. The rear roof verge is steeper and slightly lower, reflecting the original pitch. A cross range extends to the rear, stepping out slightly beyond the casement and sash windows, and continues further back to accommodate a massive chimney breast with a tall stone stack. There is also a smaller brick stack at the rear, with a slate roof lean-to beyond the gable end of the cross range, which features projecting purlin ends.
Inside, one truss is visible on the first floor, supported by a moulded knee below the beam. The attic has feather stop chamfered purlins, and there are boarded doors throughout the building.
Local climate
Fine Fare receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 54% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% 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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- 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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