8 Ship Street is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 16 January 1952. Shop. 3 related planning applications.

8 Ship Street

WRENN ID
third-chamber-yarrow
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
Shop
Address
8 Ship Street, Powys, LD3 9AF
OS grid reference
SO 043 286
Coordinates
51.94792, -3.39255
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

This building at 8 Ship Street is a shop with living accommodation above, dating from the 19th century. It has three storeys and an attic, with a stucco façade featuring four window bays. The hipped slate roof has deep eaves and two semi-circular dormers with small-pane top-hung casements. The first and second floors have 12-pane sash windows set in openings with slightly cambered heads. The ground floor boasts an attractive 19th-century double shop front with a central entrance flanked by four three-quarter columns and a continuous entablature. The right-hand side facing Bell Lane is roughcast and includes a three-light shop window on the ground floor. There may be a wing of an earlier timber-framed structure at the rear, similar to that of No. 9. The building is said to retain fielded panelled doors, chimney pieces, and other features.

Local climate

8 Ship Street 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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