Former Rear Wing of No 2 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. Former wing.

Former Rear Wing of No 2 Wheat Street

WRENN ID
strange-baluster-briar
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
Former wing
Address
Former Rear Wing of No 2 Wheat Street, Powys
OS grid reference
SO 044 285
Coordinates
51.94718, -3.39169
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The former rear wing of No 2 Wheat Street is a three-storey building with a six-window front that faces St Mary Street. It is pebbledashed with a stone plinth and has a slate roof. While the windows are mostly modern, the historic wall structure and roof line have been preserved. The second floor features six modern windows, including one with two lights and four with three lights. The first floor has six windows. On the ground floor, from left to right, there are two sash windows, a half-glazed door, a passage doorway, another half-glazed door, and a sash window with horns and glazing bars.

Local climate

Former Rear Wing of No 2 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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