2 Wheat Street is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 16 December 1976. House.

2 Wheat Street

WRENN ID
long-string-thunder
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 December 1976
Type
House
Address
2 Wheat Street, Powys
OS grid reference
SO 044 285
Coordinates
51.94721, -3.39178
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Nos. 2 and 3 Wheat Street are three-storey buildings with a rendered front facing Wheat Street. They feature four windows and a slate roof with flanking stacks. The sash windows have plain reveals, with four panes wide on both the second and first floors, while the top floor has 12-pane windows and the others have 16-pane windows. The doorways are adorned with pilasters and entablatures; No. 2 has plain pilasters, panelled reveals, and a four-panelled door, while No. 3 features fluted pilasters, shallow reveals, and a six-panelled door with the top two panels glazed. The right side of No. 2 has a small sash window in the attic and a 16-pane sash window on the other three floors.

Inside, No. 2 has been modified for office use in the late 20th century but still retains a vestibule with a barrel vaulted ceiling, a glazed door, and a partition with stained glass. It also has an altered 19th-century staircase with turned newels and straight balusters, 19th-century door frames, and some panelled shutters.

Local climate

2 Wheat Street 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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