The Dragon Hotel is a Grade II* listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 July 1963. A Georgian Hotel. 3 related planning applications.
The Dragon Hotel
- WRENN ID
- high-passage-larch
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Brecon Beacons National Park
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 19 July 1963
- Type
- Hotel
- Period
- Georgian
- Address
- The Dragon Hotel, 47 High Street, Crickhowell, Powys, NP8 1BE
- OS grid reference
- SO 217 183
- Coordinates
- 51.85813, -3.13773
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Dragon Hotel is an early Georgian building dating from the 18th century. It is a two-storey structure with an attic and features a five-window rendered front, topped by a tall, steep-pitched roof. The building has two contemporary brick chimney stacks at either end and three pitched roof dormers with plain bargeboards and slate hung sides. The windows are paired casements.
The eaves are bracketed and canted upwards towards the center, creating a pediment above a later 18th-century Venetian window. This window is adorned with stepped keystones, a swept-out cornice, a classical frieze, and plain pilasters, along with a bracketed cill. The building has renewed 12 and 16-pane sash windows, which feature moulded cornices.
On the ground floor, there are two splayed bays at the center, with some timber glazing bars removed from the right bay, while the left retains its original glass. To the right, there is a half-glazed door with a flat hood supported by ogee brackets, and an original 12-pane sash window is positioned to the right of this door. The front of the building previously had two additional doorways, which led to the landlord's cottage; these are now blocked and replaced with 2-light casement windows.
The right end wall is roughcast and displays an exposed chimney breast, as seen in a view from 1898 that shows a one-window lean-to. The left end wall is made of rubble and partially rendered. The rear of the building features sash windows and a large chimney breast that has been heightened in brick, with plans for the rear to be rebuilt soon.
Inside, the hotel retains some original unmoulded beams on the ground floor.
Local climate
The Dragon Hotel 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
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- Related listed building consents — 3 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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