Ye Olde Cognac PH is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 16 December 1976. House. 5 related planning applications.
Ye Olde Cognac PH
- WRENN ID
- veiled-tallow-moss
- 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
- Ye Olde Cognac PH, 50 High Street Inferior, Powys, LD3 7AP
- OS grid reference
- SO 044 285
- Coordinates
- 51.94733, -3.39103
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Ye Olde Cognac Public House is a three-storey building with a stuccoed front facing High Street. It features two windows and a hipped slate roof. The windows have sash glazing, with smaller 6-pane sashes on the second floor and larger 12-pane sashes on the first floor. The late 19th-century public house front has two windows, each consisting of two round-headed lights, and a central round-headed doorway with a blocked tympanum.
The rear elevation, which faces Church Lane, is roughcast and gabled. It includes a 9-pane sash window on both second floors, and on the first floor, there is a 12-pane sash window with a 9-pane sash window offset to the left. The ground floor features two Brecon Hopper windows.
Inside, there are cased ceiling beams on the first and second floors. An early 19th-century semi-elliptical staircase with stick balusters is likely an adaptation of an older newel stair. The building also has panelled doors, some of which on the second floor have fielded panels.
Local climate
Ye Olde Cognac PH 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
- 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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