46 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. Commercial building.
46 High Street Inferior
- WRENN ID
- shifting-wattle-woodpecker
- 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
- Commercial building
- Address
- 46 High Street Inferior, Powys, LD3 7AP
- OS grid reference
- SO 044 285
- Coordinates
- 51.94745, -3.39129
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
46 High Street Inferior is a 4-storey building with 2 windows on the front, constructed in stucco and featuring end pilaster strips. It has a slate roof and windows adorned with moulded architraves. The third floor has six-pane inward opening windows, while the first and second floors boast twelve-pane sash windows. Decorative panels with surrounds are present at both the second and first floor levels. The building features an exceptional double-fronted shopfront, which includes a central wooden doorcase flanked by fluted Corinthian columns, with semi-circular headed windows on either side that have keystones. An enriched dentil entablature runs above, supported by fluted Corinthian pilasters.
The rear elevation facing Church Lane is gabled, finished in scribed render, and includes modern windows. There is a doorway with a shaped hood and a 4-panelled door.
Inside the shop, there are Corinthian columns, and the east wall features a 4-centred stone doorway with chamfered jambs.
Local climate
46 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 2000
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