4 Tower Street is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 25 September 1986. Former station house.
4 Tower Street
- WRENN ID
- north-entrance-hawk
- 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
- Former station house
- Address
- 4 Tower Street, Crickhowell, Powys, NP8 1BL
- OS grid reference
- SO 217 183
- Coordinates
- 51.85831, -3.13714
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
4 Tower Street is a group of two-storey buildings featuring two-window facades, except for Nos 1 and 8. The frontages are a mix of stucco and roughcast, with the first floors of Nos 2 and 3 finished in whitewashed plaster. Nos 4, 7, and 9 are designed as advanced pavilions, with No 4 further highlighted by a pedimented cross-gable. The buildings have cill bands and plinths, and No 7 includes an end pilaster strip. The roofs are slate with boarded eaves, and there are three cement render chimney stacks and two brick chimney stacks.
All the buildings feature recessed 12-pane sash windows, except for the ground floor left window of No 2. The south front of No 49 has lugged architraves, and No 1 has a one-window front. The entrance to No 3 has been altered, with a sash window now in the former arched doorway recess. The other fronts have arched entrances of two orders with keystones for Nos 4 to 7, and Nos 1 to 3 and 7 have four-panel doors. No 4 also features a five-pane fanlight. No 7 has a one-window front that wraps around a chamfered corner, leading to the three-window dry dash front of No 8. The ground floor of No 49 is accentuated by deep pilasters and a large shop window.
Local climate
4 Tower Street 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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