Hay On Wye Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 1 February 1988. Post office. 3 related planning applications.
Hay On Wye Post Office
- WRENN ID
- nether-latch-crimson
- 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
- Post office
- Address
- Hay On Wye Post Office, 3 High Town, Powys, HR3 5AE
- OS grid reference
- SO 229 423
- Coordinates
- 52.07453, -3.12524
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Hay On Wye Post Office is a three-storey building featuring a two-window front made of snecked rubble with freestone dressings. It has a slate roof with wide bracket eaves and a brick chimney stack that is attached to the rubble stack of No 4. The building includes horned four-pane sash windows with stone lintels, situated above a three-bay shop front that has dividing pilasters and a deep entablature. There is a panelled door entrance on the left and top opening casements on the right.
On the right end of the building, there is an exposed chimney breast with the stack removed, and some brick infill is present at the top.
Local climate
Hay On Wye Post Office 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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