5 Tower Street is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 25 September 1986. House.

5 Tower Street

WRENN ID
muted-cinder-vale
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Brecon Beacons National Park
Constituency
Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
25 September 1986
Type
House
Address
5 Tower Street, Crickhowell, Powys, NP8 1BL
OS grid reference
SO 217 183
Coordinates
51.8583, -3.13702
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

5 Tower Street is a group of two-storey buildings featuring two-window frontages, except for Nos 1 and 8. The frontages are made of stucco and roughcast, with the first floors of Nos 2 and 3 being whitewashed plaster. Nos 4 and 7 are designed as advanced pavilions, with No 4 further highlighted by a pedimented cross-gable at the center. The buildings have cill bands and plinths, and No 7 includes an end pilaster strip. The roofs are slate, with boarded eaves and three cement render and two brick chimney stacks.

Recessed 12-pane sash windows are present throughout, except for the ground floor left window of No 2. The south front of No 49 features lugged architraves, while No 1 has a one-window front. The entrance to No 3 has been altered, with a sash window now in the former arched doorway recess. The other fronts have arched entrances of two orders with keystones, particularly notable on Nos 4 to 7. Nos 1 to 3 and 7 have four-panel doors, and No 4 features a five-pane fanlight. No 7 has a one-window front that wraps around a chamfered corner, leading to the similar but three-window dry dash front of No 8. The ground floor of No 49 is accentuated by deep pilasters and a large shop window.

Local climate

5 Tower Street sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,020 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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