Queens Coffee Tavern (Percy Davies Institution) is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 25 September 1986. A Victorian Coffee tavern.
Queens Coffee Tavern (Percy Davies Institution)
- WRENN ID
- other-slate-crow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Brecon Beacons National Park
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 25 September 1986
- Type
- Coffee tavern
- Address
- Queens Coffee Tavern (Percy Davies Institution), Crickhowell, Powys
- OS grid reference
- SO 218 184
- Coordinates
- 51.85903, -3.13679
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Queens Coffee Tavern, also known as the Percy Davies Institution, is a tall Victorian building dating from the 19th century. It features a three-storey, one-window painted brick front with some Gothic details and an open-pedimented gable end facing the street, which is flanked by advanced and panelled end pilaster strips. The building has a slate roof.
On the second floor, there are paired semicircular headed sash windows with keystones and a bracketed cill. The first floor showcases a splayed oriel window with sash glazing, and above the ground floor cornice, there is a dated corbel with gablets at either end. The entrance consists of a recessed half-glazed door, and there is a memorial tablet located below it.
The Standard Street frontage is roughcast with six windows and features a cross gable over the central bay, which contains a six-panel door. The sash windows throughout have glazing bars and cambered heads.
Inside, the ground floor retains Gothic furnishings.
Local climate
Queens Coffee Tavern (Percy Davies Institution) 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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