J.Geoffrey Aspin is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 1 February 1988. Shop.
J.Geoffrey Aspin
- WRENN ID
- endless-flagstone-winter
- 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
- Shop
- Address
- J.Geoffrey Aspin, 27 Castle Street, Hay, Powys
- OS grid reference
- SO 228 423
- Coordinates
- 52.07387, -3.12679
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
J. Geoffrey Aspin is a building likely dating from the 17th century that has undergone significant alterations. It features a two-storey and attic design with a three-bay front made of coursed rubble, highlighted by an advanced flat roof shop front. The building has a tall hipped slate roof, complete with end brick chimney stacks and an additional brick stack at the front left corner above a slate-roofed cross passage.
The front includes flat-roofed modern dormers with casement windows, as well as two widely spaced small-pane sash windows on the first floor. To the left side of the shop front, there is a tripartite small-pane sash window, while the right side features a broad horned sash window. The shop front is adorned with a wide cornice and pilaster strips at the ends, flanking paired central entrances that have fanlights and scribed panelled doors, with the right door being half-glazed. A similar door leads to the cross passage.
Inside, there is a rubble chimney breast at the left end, and the rear of the building has been modernised, featuring a cross range to the left that extends to the edge of the Castle grounds. The interior has also been modernised.
Local climate
J.Geoffrey Aspin 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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