House, including Rear Wing with NW Elevation in Free Street is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 16 December 1976. Commercial building.
House, including Rear Wing with NW Elevation in Free Street
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- 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
- Commercial building
- Address
- House, including Rear Wing with NW Elevation in Free Street, 36 the Watton, Powys
- OS grid reference
- SO 046 284
- Coordinates
- 51.94607, -3.38834
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
This is a Victorian house with a rear wing located on Free Street, featuring three and two storeys and finished in stucco. The building has slate roofs, with the corner block on Free Street rising to three storeys. To the left, there is a separate steeply-pitched slate roof covering two bays on Free Street. The window openings are adorned with segmentally-headed moulded architraves and contain sash windows without glazing bars. Both the Free Street and The Watton elevations are enhanced by pilasters and an entablature that wrap around the ground floor.
The elevation facing The Watton has five windows, including a corner bay, while the Free Street elevation has three windows. On the ground floor, there is a corner doorway, and both the Watton and Free Street sides feature 19th-century four-light shop windows with curved heads. The Watton side includes a camber-headed window and doorway, while the Free Street side has a camber-headed doorway, two camber-headed windows, and a pair of small windows.
At the eastern end of the Free Street elevation, there is a further two-storey stuccoed wing with a slate roof. This wing has five segmentally-headed windows with stuccoed architraves on the first floor, featuring single pane glazing. On the ground floor, there are two 19th-century shop fronts, each with a doorway to the right and a two-light shop window to the left, all beneath a continuous moulded stuccoed cornice with volutes at the tops of the pilasters that define the arrangement.
Local climate
House, including Rear Wing with NW Elevation in Free 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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