Markets Tavern Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 16 December 1976. Public house.
Markets Tavern Hotel
- WRENN ID
- leaning-landing-hazel
- 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 December 1976
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- Markets Tavern Hotel, 36 Free Street, Powys
- OS grid reference
- SO 047 285
- Coordinates
- 51.94688, -3.38716
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Markets Tavern Hotel, located at Nos 36 and 37 Free Street, is a public house dating from the 19th century. It features a street front that rises three storeys and includes six windows. The roof is slate and hipped, with slightly projecting eaves. The building is constructed of stone rubble laid in courses, with stone lintels and sills for the door and window openings. The upper floors have four-pane horned sash windows, while the ground floor has tripartite sash windows at each end. The entrance to the pub is situated in the third bay from the left, featuring a doorway with pilasters and an entablature, along with a half-glazed door that has a rectangular overlight above it. To the left of this entrance is a former doorway with a rectangular overlight. The right side of the building has a four-window return, and both this side and the rear feature yellow-brick dressings.
Local climate
Markets Tavern Hotel 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 — 3 transactions since 1996
- No related consent applications matched
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