43a High Street Inferior is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 16 December 1976. Shop.
43a High Street Inferior
- WRENN ID
- tenth-string-torch
- 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
- Shop
- Address
- 43a High Street Inferior, Powys
- OS grid reference
- SO 044 285
- Coordinates
- 51.94748, -3.39157
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Nos 43 and 43a High Street Inferior is a shop with accommodation above, built in the 19th century. The building has three storeys and is finished in stucco. It features a hipped slate roof with projecting boarded eaves. The ground floor has panelled pilasters, while the first and second floors are adorned with giant pilasters. There is a cornice at the first floor level.
The High Street elevation consists of three windows, each with moulded architraves on the first and second floors. The second floor has segmental headed openings, while the first floor features rectangular openings with shallow segmental pediments supported by small consoles. The sash windows do not have glazing bars. The shopfront includes a central doorway that is set back between display windows.
The building has a wide elevation facing down Ship Street, also with three storeys and three bays, each containing paired windows similar to those on the High Street. There are two broad modern display windows and a doorway to the right. The south-east side elevation facing Church Lane is rendered and two bays wide, with plain openings.
Local climate
43a 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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