The Limited Bookshop (2 storey range only) is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 1 February 1988. Bookshop. 5 related planning applications.
The Limited Bookshop (2 storey range only)
- WRENN ID
- hallowed-outpost-dust
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Brecon Beacons National Park
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 1 February 1988
- Type
- Bookshop
- Address
- The Limited Bookshop (2 storey range only), 44 Lion Street, Hay, Powys, HR3 5AA
- OS grid reference
- SO 229 424
- Coordinates
- 52.07484, -3.12567
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Limited Bookshop features a two-storey, four-window High Victorian gabled front, dating from 1886. It has a slate roof with wide boarded eaves. At the gable, a lion carries a shield inscribed "R W & S 1886," positioned above a heavily moulded cornice and a panelled fascia that includes inset glazed tiles. The façade is divided by pilasters with foliated capitals and carved heads on both floors, with a cornice running between the first and ground floors. The ground floor has a recessed shop front with a three-light window on the left, supported by cusped timber brackets over panelled reveals adorned with inset glazed tiles depicting animals, and a broad glazed entrance on the right. The side elevations are constructed of rubble and feature horned sashes on the upper floor.
Inside, the open-plan layout retains original details such as stop-chamfered beams, cusped timber braces, and a broad staircase with a Gothic balustrade. The building has a seven-bay open roof supported by cast-iron trusses, with a narrower four-bay range at the rear.
Local climate
The Limited Bookshop (2 storey range only) receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 54% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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