9 Wheat Street is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 16 December 1976. House.

9 Wheat Street

WRENN ID
old-chimney-crimson
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
House
Address
9 Wheat Street, Powys
OS grid reference
SO 044 285
Coordinates
51.94722, -3.39203
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Nos. 8 and 9 Wheat Street are a pair of houses dating from the 19th century. They stand three storeys tall and have three windows across the front, which faces Wheat Street. The houses are finished in stucco and feature decorative bands at the second and first floor levels, along with a plinth. The roof is slate and has a modillion cornice.

On the second floor, there are small sash windows. The first floor has a blind centre window, with a 12-pane sash window on either side. The ground floor features paired doorways in the centre, which are flanked by narrow fluted pilasters and topped with a cornice; the doors are panelled. Each side of the doorways has a reinstated 12-pane sash window.

Local climate

9 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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