8 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. A 19th century Commercial. 3 related planning applications.
8 High Street Inferior
- WRENN ID
- noble-bonework-bracken
- 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
- Period
- 19th century
- Address
- 8 High Street Inferior, Powys, LD3 7AL
- OS grid reference
- SO 045 285
- Coordinates
- 51.94755, -3.39085
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
This building, located at 8 High Street Inferior, is a three-storey shop with living space above, featuring a painted pebble-dash front that dates from the mid to late 19th century. It has a plain band at the second floor level and is topped with a slate roof. The windows have moulded architraves, with two square windows on the second floor that have modern glazing. The first floor has a central triple sash window with a bracketed cornice, flanked by narrow horned sash windows that do not have glazing bars. The ground floor has a modern shop front.
Inside, there is an 18th-century staircase, although the balusters are either boxed in or removed, and an 18th-century fireplace.
Local climate
8 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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