The Poetry Bookshop is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 1 February 1988. Church. 1 related planning application.
The Poetry Bookshop
- WRENN ID
- frozen-pillar-gorse
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Brecon Beacons National Park
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 1 February 1988
- Type
- Church
- Address
- The Poetry Bookshop, 22 Broad Street, Hay, Powys, HR3 5DB
- OS grid reference
- SO 229 425
- Coordinates
- 52.07565, -3.12556
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Poetry Bookshop is a three-storey building with a painted brick facade and a slate roof, topped by brick chimney stacks at the front. Originally featuring full-height bay windows, these have been altered to two stories and incorporate sash windows with glazing bars. Tripartite sash windows are present on the second floor. The central entrances are paired; one has a modern door, the other a four-panel door.
Inside No. 22, a studded partition wall remains, now separating the property from the adjacent West House. It originally formed an internal division within the building. A Victorian dog-leg staircase is also present.
Local climate
The Poetry Bookshop receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 54% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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