26 High Street Superior is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 16 December 1976. House. 1 related planning application.
26 High Street Superior
- WRENN ID
- pitched-spandrel-saffron
- 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
- 26 High Street Superior, Powys, LD3 7LE
- OS grid reference
- SO 044 286
- Coordinates
- 51.94851, -3.39175
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
26 High Street Superior is a three-storey building with a painted roughcast facade. It features two bays on the High Street side and five bays on the Castle Street side, including a curved corner bay. The roof is covered with slate and has a modillion eaves cornice. The building is adorned with giant stucco Ionic pilasters. On the second floor, there are square 8-pane sash windows, while the first floor has twelve-pane sash windows with moulded architraves. The corner bay includes a small bowed sash window on the second floor and a blind window on the first floor. On the Castle Street elevation, the first window on the first floor is also blind. The High Street front has an altered 20th-century shopfront. In Castle Street, there is a blind 19th-century shop window with end pilasters, a fascia, and a cornice on volutes, along with a blind window in the third ground floor bay.
Local climate
26 High Street Superior 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2018
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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