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

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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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