Bank Buildings is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 25 September 1986. Commercial.
Bank Buildings
- WRENN ID
- grey-bronze-mallow
- 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
- Commercial
- Address
- Bank Buildings, 3 Beaufort Street, Crickhowell, Powys, NP8 1AD
- OS grid reference
- SO 218 183
- Coordinates
- 51.85814, -3.13643
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Bank Buildings is a two-storey structure featuring a two-window front with pebbledash finish. The central bays of Nos 2 and 3 are advanced, and the building includes end pilaster strips, a cill band, and a plinth. It has a slate roof that is hipped around the corner, with boxed eaves and three brick chimney stacks. The windows are mainly 12-pane sash types. The entrances are sunk arched with impost bands, and Nos 2 and 3 have recessed panelled doors. No 1 has a multi-paned shop front that returns around a splayed and rendered corner, leading to a four-window frontage on Tower Street SW, which features a similar design.
Local climate
Bank Buildings 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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