40 High Street Inferior is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 31 May 1961. A Victorian Shop.
40 High Street Inferior
- WRENN ID
- salt-niche-starling
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Brecon Beacons National Park
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 31 May 1961
- Type
- Shop
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- 40 High Street Inferior, Powys, LD3 7AL
- OS grid reference
- SO 044 286
- Coordinates
- 51.94788, -3.39147
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
This building is a three-storey shop with living accommodation above, dating from the Victorian era. It is constructed of painted brick and features a decorative band between the first and second floors. The main elevation faces north and includes two windows beneath a hipped slate roof with modillion eaves. The second floor has nine-pane sash windows, while the first floor boasts 12-pane sashes.
The shop front is particularly notable, featuring a central bowed and half-glazed double door, flanked by two bowed windows with three-centred headed lights. The shop front is enhanced by a casing of pilasters, a fascia, and a modillion cornice.
On the east side, there is a single small-pane sash window on each floor, positioned towards the rear. The west side also has a single small-pane sash window on the first and second floors, set towards the rear, along with a small doorway below. To the left, there is a round-headed doorway with a pedimented doorcase.
Local climate
40 High Street Inferior 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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