2 Lion Street is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 16 January 1952. House. 1 related planning application.
2 Lion Street
- WRENN ID
- dim-gallery-claret
- 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 January 1952
- Type
- House
- Address
- 2 Lion Street, Powys, LD3 7AU
- OS grid reference
- SO 046 284
- Coordinates
- 51.94665, -3.38901
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
This is a pair of houses located at 2 Lion Street. They date to the 18th century, with rendered front elevations of three storeys. Long and short quoins mark the ends of the buildings. Each house has two windows. The roofs are slate-covered with projecting eaves. The windows are four-paned sash windows with horns, set within moulded architraves. Doorways are situated within the ground floor bays to the inner side. The wooden doorcases feature pilasters, bracketed cornices, and panelled reveals, with steps leading up to the four-panelled doors, each with a rectangular overlight.
Local climate
2 Lion Street 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2020
- 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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