Bar to the Bear Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 25 September 1986. Public house.
Bar to the Bear Hotel
- WRENN ID
- upper-beam-finch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Brecon Beacons National Park
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 25 September 1986
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- Bar to the Bear Hotel, Crickhowell, Powys
- OS grid reference
- SO 217 184
- Coordinates
- 51.85937, -3.1371
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Bar to the Bear Hotel is a short, two-storey terrace building featuring an uneven four-window roughcast front for the Bar and a two-window scribed stucco front for No. 5. It has an undulating slate roof and a roughcast chimney stack, with mainly small pane sash glazing. The building includes a later 19th-century shop front with a splayed entrance to No. 5. Architectural details include an end pilaster strip, a cill band, and a plinth for the Bar, as well as cambered architraves with keystones on the outer ground floor windows. There is a tripartite window next to a pedimented architrave above a four-panel door.
Local climate
Bar to the Bear Hotel sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,020 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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