8 The Bulwark is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 16 December 1976. Shop.
8 The Bulwark
- WRENN ID
- lone-parapet-sepia
- 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
- 8 The Bulwark, Powys
- OS grid reference
- SO 045 285
- Coordinates
- 51.94714, -3.38996
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
8 The Bulwark is a shop with accommodation above, dating from the 19th century. The building has three storeys and features two windows on the front, which is taller than the adjacent building to the right. The front wall is finished in stucco, and it has a hipped slate roof with a shallow pitch. There is a decorative band at the second floor level. The window openings are adorned with moulded architraves and have brackets beneath the sills, with four-pane sash windows throughout.
The shop front, which is in a later 19th century style, includes a framework of pilasters, a fascia, and a cornice supported by brackets. To the left, there is a doorway, and the shop window features three elliptically-headed lights. The return elevation is also stuccoed and consists of three storeys with four windows, all with four-pane sash windows. The ground floor has shop windows. At the rear, there is a lower two-storey wing with three windows, finished in pebbledash and topped with a slate hipped roof.
Local climate
8 The Bulwark 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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