Bank Buildings is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 25 September 1986. Commercial building. 7 related planning applications.
Bank Buildings
- WRENN ID
- woven-solder-snow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Brecon Beacons National Park
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 25 September 1986
- Type
- Commercial building
- Address
- Bank Buildings, 2 Beaufort Street, Crickhowell, Powys, NP8 1AD
- OS grid reference
- SO 218 183
- Coordinates
- 51.8582, -3.13651
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Bank Buildings is a two-storey, two-window building with a pebbledash front. There are advanced central bays at numbers 2 and 3, featuring end pilaster strips, a cill band, and a plinth. The building has a slate roof, with a hipped form around the corner, boxed eaves, and three brick chimney stacks. It mainly features twelve-pane sash windows. The entrances are sunk and arched, with impost bands, and contain recessed panelled doors at numbers 2 and 3. A multi-paned shop front is present at number 1, extending around a splayed and rendered corner to a four-window frontage on Tower Street SW, which exhibits similar treatment.
Local climate
Bank Buildings sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,020 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2012
- Related listed building consents — 7 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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