53 High Street Inferior is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 16 December 1976. Shop.
53 High Street Inferior
- WRENN ID
- calm-oriel-myrtle
- 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
- Shop
- Address
- 53 High Street Inferior, Powys
- OS grid reference
- SO 045 285
- Coordinates
- 51.94724, -3.39078
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
This building is a shop with accommodation above, featuring Gothic detailing. It dates from the 19th century and has two storeys, with four bays facing High Street Inferior and one bay on the corner. The walls are painted brick, with some stonework, and it has a slate roof with arcaded eaves.
On the High Street side, there are four bays with pointed arches; the upper floor has horned sash windows with pointed heads, while the ground floor features shop windows and a doorway located in the narrower third bay. Gothic detailing is present at the springing of the arches. The corner bay includes an oriel window on the first floor, supported by corbelling and a cornice, and a doorway with a pointed head on the ground floor.
The return elevation has four bays similar to the High Street elevation. The rear elevation facing Steeple Lane is stuccoed and has horned sash windows. To the right, there is a gabled block with two windows on the first floor and one below; to the left, there is a three-window block with an altered pedimented doorcase in the third bay.
Local climate
53 High Street Inferior 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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