Boar's Head PH is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 16 December 1976. Commercial.

Boar's Head PH

WRENN ID
young-remnant-flax
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
Commercial
Address
Boar's Head PH, 12 Watergate, Powys
OS grid reference
SO 043 286
Coordinates
51.94765, -3.39306
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Boar's Head Public House is a building featuring an ornate stuccoed facade, dating from the 19th century. It has a gable facing Watergate and consists of two storeys and an attic, arranged in two bays. The gable is adorned with a scrolled bargeboard, although the finial is missing. The right side displays rusticated quoins, and there are horned sash windows without glazing bars. One of the attic windows has a moulded architrave.

On the first floor, there are two splayed oriel windows, while the ground floor features a sash window on the right. To the left, there is a 19th-century public house front that includes two three-centred headed lights and a half-glazed door with a fanlight and panelled reveals. This is framed by a casing of pilasters, a fascia, a toothed cornice, and ornate console brackets that extend over the doorway into a narrow canted corner bay on the left. This corner bay has a small gable with a bargeboard and finial at the attic storey, and a ground floor doorway with pilasters, panelled reveals, and half-glazed double doors with a fanlight. The building has a lower and simpler two-storey, five-bay stuccoed elevation facing St Michael Street.

Local climate

Boar's Head PH 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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