Fryer's Yard and North House is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 16 December 1976. Walling.
Fryer's Yard and North House
- WRENN ID
- muted-ledge-root
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Brecon Beacons National Park
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 16 December 1976
- Type
- Walling
- Address
- Fryer's Yard and North House, Powys
- OS grid reference
- SO 044 285
- Coordinates
- 51.9471, -3.39127
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Fryer's Yard consists of four three-storey blocks arranged around a central courtyard. The southwest elevation of the southwest wing faces St Mary Street, with the right-hand section known as North House. The elevation on St Mary Street features exposed stone on the left and stucco on the right. There is a band at the second floor level and a plinth. North House has two semi-circular lunettes in the attic storey, two three-light sash windows on both the first and ground floors, and a central doorway on the ground floor flanked by fluted pilasters, topped with an entablature and a six-panelled door with a rectangular fanlight. The right return of North House includes a semi-circular lunette on the top floor.
To the left, Fryer's Yard has a brick band and brick dressings, with two bays featuring modern glazing. The right-hand bay has a tall segmental-headed arch that rises through two storeys, topped with a semi-circular lunette. The left-hand bay includes a semi-circular attic lunette, a first-floor window, and a window and doorway.
The similar northeast elevation facing Church Lane is made of stone with a red brick band at the second floor level and red brick voussoirs. It features four semi-circular attic lunettes with modern glazing. On the first floor, there are segmental-headed openings, two of which have modern glazing, while the third is a doorway with a dressed stone head leading down to ground level, and the fourth is a 20-pane sash window. The ground floor windows match those in the bays above, with a camber-headed doorway at the right end.
Local climate
Fryer's Yard and North House 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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