2 King Street is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 16 December 1976. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
2 King Street
- WRENN ID
- late-soffit-clover
- 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
- Cottage
- Address
- 2 King Street, Powys, LD3 7NB
- OS grid reference
- SO 045 288
- Coordinates
- 51.94998, -3.39035
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
This is a cottage located at 2 King Street, built with stone walls that are pebbledashed, while the eastern end wall is made of brick and also pebbledashed. It features a slate roof with a chimney at the western end. On the northern elevation, from left to right, there is one dormer with a two-light window beneath it, a similar window to the left of a modern boarded porch, and a small window to the right of the porch. Additionally, there is an upper floor window in the eastern gable end. A room on the right side of the cottage has an unusually high ceiling.
Local climate
2 King 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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