Punch Bowl Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 16 January 1952. House. 3 related planning applications.

Punch Bowl Public House

WRENN ID
broken-tracery-soot
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 January 1952
Type
House
Address
Punch Bowl Public House, 29 High Street Superior, Powys, LD3 7LE
OS grid reference
SO 044 286
Coordinates
51.94819, -3.3917
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Punch Bowl Public House is a three-storey building located on High Street, featuring five bays and a pebbledashed exterior. It has a slate roof with one box dormer and deeply projecting eaves that have a panelled soffit. A band runs at the second floor level. The windows are small-pane sash types with moulded wood architraves. The second-floor windows have cornices and bracketed sills, with a blocked opening in the centre and the others being 6-pane sashes. The first-floor windows also have architraves and cornices, with 15-pane sashes. On the ground floor, there are two public house and shop fronts dating from the late 19th century to early 20th century. The front for No. 29 features windows in the centre and doorways at each end, all framed by pilasters and topped with a bracketed cornice. There is an additional bay at the northern end with a camber-headed archway leading to Bell Lane, which is also pebbledashed and has a modillion eaves cornice on the first-floor wall with a slate roof above.

The Great Room is still present, although it is now divided between Nos. 29 and 30. Inside No. 29, there is an early 19th-century staircase and early 19th-century panelled doors. The 18th-century modillion cornice of the Grand Room remains, despite early 19th-century subdivisions.

Local climate

Punch Bowl Public House 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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