Old Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 30 September 1999. House, former shop. 2 related planning applications.

Old Post Office

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Brecon Beacons National Park
Constituency
Caerfyrddin MP: Ann Davies (PC)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
30 September 1999
Type
House, former shop
Address
Old Post Office, Myddfai, Llandovery, Carmarthenshire, SA20 0NX
OS grid reference
SN 772 300
Coordinates
51.95564, -3.78791
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Old Post Office is a house and former shop dating from the early 20th century. It features unpainted roughcast with unpainted stucco dressings in contrasting colours, topped with a slate roof. The building has a roughcast left stack with a yellow and black brick top, which it shares with Church House, and a smaller red brick stack at the right end.

It is two storeys high and has a three-window range of sashes with marginal glazing bars. The centre features a panelled door with an overlight. On the ground floor to the left, there is a shopfront made of painted timber, with a fascia that continues over the centre house door. The shopfront has panelled piers with console brackets on each side, as well as one on each side of the house door, topped with a continuous cornice. The shopfront includes a 6-pane shop window and half-glazed double doors with an overlight, featuring coloured glass in the margins of the door glazing. Both the shop and house doors are recessed within panelled reveals.

Additional early 20th-century stucco details include brown window surrounds with keystones, a sill band with an inset band of small modillion brackets, and an eaves band. There are angle piers on each floor with pale grey inset fluted panels. A letter-box marked "ER" is located to the ground floor right.

Local climate

Old Post Office sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,390 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 91% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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