Crown House including Gemini is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 1 February 1988. House.
Crown House including Gemini
- WRENN ID
- old-flagstone-heath
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Brecon Beacons National Park
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 1 February 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Crown House including Gemini, 8 High Town, Hay, Powys
- OS grid reference
- SO 229 423
- Coordinates
- 52.07451, -3.12587
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Crown House, also known as Gemini, is a three-storey building with a two-window front, finished in scribed render. It features a slate roof with wide bracket eaves and a cement render chimney stack located to the right, midway down the front verge, topped with a brick cap. Above the overall late Georgian shop front are four-pane sash windows. The shop front includes a bracket cornice and tapered Ionic pilasters at the ends and center, flanking a half-glazed double door entrance that has a segmental headed fanlight. The shop windows are two-light, and there are glazed panels on the stallriser. The rear of the building has brick dressings.
Local climate
Crown House including Gemini receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 54% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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