51 High Street Inferior is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 4 November 2005. Shop. 4 related planning applications.
51 High Street Inferior
- WRENN ID
- leaning-wattle-ash
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Brecon Beacons National Park
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 4 November 2005
- Type
- Shop
- Address
- 51 High Street Inferior, Powys, LD3 7AP
- OS grid reference
- SO 044 285
- Coordinates
- 51.9473, -3.39097
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
This building, located at 51 High Street Inferior, is a shop with living accommodation above. It stands three storeys tall plus an attic and is constructed of painted brick. The front features a single-window design with a hipped attic dormer, which is flanked by pilasters and topped with a shaped parapet that includes a Greek key band. There is a two-storey splayed oriel window on the second and first floors, adorned with bands of dogtooth decoration below. The shopfront has been altered and includes doorways at each end.
The rear elevation, facing Church Lane, is made of exposed stone with yellow brick dressings. It has a two-window front with horned sash windows. On the ground floor, there are notable 19th-century iron railings, and there are doorways at each end.
Local climate
51 High Street Inferior 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2010
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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