7 Wheat Street is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 31 May 1961. House, office.

7 Wheat Street

WRENN ID
lost-solder-bracken
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Brecon Beacons National Park
Constituency
Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
31 May 1961
Type
House, office
Address
7 Wheat Street, Powys
OS grid reference
SO 044 285
Coordinates
51.94733, -3.39197
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

7 Wheat Street is a former house that has been converted into an office with accommodation above. The building has three storeys and four windows facing Wheat Street, featuring a roughcast exterior and a slate roof. The first and second floors have small-pane sash windows, with the first-floor windows being squarish and consisting of six panes, while the ground floor has 12-pane sashes.

The ground floor features a central doorcase with a pediment and pilasters, a semi-circular fanlight with interlacing tracery, and a six-panelled door. There are cornices on either side of the doorway, which may have originated from a former shopfront. On either side of the entrance, there are modern recessed display windows with three arched lights, and there is an additional doorway to the right.

Inside, there is a vestibule with a panelled door and a semi-circular headed arch. A notable 18th-century wooden staircase leads to the rear. The southwest room on the first floor has a ceiling beam and cornice, along with a fireplace featuring a lugged surround. The ground floor room to the left has a stone overmantel with pierced quatrefoils dating from around 1600 or earlier, a beam and cornice, and an archway to the rear with classical detailing. The fielded panelled doors add to the period character of the space. The ground floor room to the right also includes a period fireplace, and there is a cellar with rough beams.

Local climate

7 Wheat 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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