4 High Street Inferior is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 16 January 1952. Shop. 9 related planning applications.

4 High Street Inferior

WRENN ID
buried-hammer-heath
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
Shop
Address
4 High Street Inferior, Powys, LD3 7AH
OS grid reference
SO 045 285
Coordinates
51.94735, -3.39045
Source
Cadw listing

Also on this page: sale history · EPC · related consents · flood risk · radon risk · weather exposure · detailed attributes ↓

Description

Nos 3 and 4 High Street Inferior is a shop with accommodation above, dating from the 18th century. The building has two storeys plus an attic and features a stuccoed front. It has a deep slate hipped roof with projecting eaves that have a boarded soffit, and there is an extension to the left leading to a large brick chimney stack.

The front elevation includes three hipped dormers with slate roofs and casement glazing. On the first floor, there are five 12-pane hornless sash windows set in moulded architraves. The ground floor features a 20th-century shopfront designed in a classical style, consisting of five bays with a central doorway and two display windows on each side, supported by half columns that hold up a fascia board and cornice.

At the rear, there are two hipped dormers and three sash windows with glazing bars on the first floor. It is believed that Nos 3 and 4 retain the upper part of a good staircase from around 1700, which has turned balusters.

Local climate

4 High Street Inferior 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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  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2018
  • Related listed building consents — 9 applications
  • 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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