20 Ship Street is a Grade II* listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 14 August 1964. House. 1 related planning application.

20 Ship Street

WRENN ID
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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 1964
Type
House
Address
20 Ship Street, Powys, LD3 9AD
OS grid reference
SO 044 285
Coordinates
51.94755, -3.39194
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

20 Ship Street is a three-storey timber-framed building that features overhangs jettied out on each upper floor. The front of the building has a large timber-framed gable that is close-studded and adorned with a carved wood bargeboard and finial. There is a window strip consisting of seven lights arranged in a 2-3-2 pattern, with two mullions. The first floor is rendered and has brackets supporting the overhang above, along with two wide 12-pane sash windows that have wooden architraves. The ground floor has a modern shop front. Some beams are visible on the ceiling of the ground floor.

Local climate

20 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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