Former Shop at Olde Mason's Arms P.H. is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 14 August 1995. Shop.
Former Shop at Olde Mason's Arms P.H.
- WRENN ID
- night-rubblework-spring
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Brecon Beacons National Park
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 14 August 1995
- Type
- Shop
- Address
- Former Shop at Olde Mason's Arms P.H., Talgarth, Powys
- OS grid reference
- SO 155 338
- Coordinates
- 51.99643, -3.23168
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The former shop at Olde Mason's Arms Public House is a building from the early to mid-19th century. It is constructed of stone with a painted brick facade and has a 20th-century artificial slate roof. The building features two bays and stands two stories tall, topped with a gable stack.
On the ground floor, there is a full-length 19th-century symmetrical shop window flanked by end pilasters, with a central pair of glazed doors. The shop window is supported by triple brackets at the ends and intermediate brackets that hold up a continuous canopy. The first floor has two widely spaced sash windows, one with nine panes and the other with twelve panes, both featuring Brecon hoppers. At the rear, there is an off-centre door that has been blocked.
In front of the building, there is a cobbled yard with edging that defines a path leading to the public house door. The shop is only eight feet wide and was originally divided into a shop area and a kitchen to the right, which included a corner fireplace. A staircase at the opposite end leads to the upper floor, which has a matchboarded ceiling.
Local climate
Former Shop at Olde Mason's Arms P.H. sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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 — 2 transactions since 2006
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