Havards is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 1 February 1988. House.
Havards
- WRENN ID
- peeling-outpost-rowan
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Brecon Beacons National Park
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 1 February 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Havards, 2 High Town, Hay, Powys
- OS grid reference
- SO 229 423
- Coordinates
- 52.07454, -3.12514
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Havards is an early 19th-century, three-storey building with a two-window front, primarily constructed of coursed rubble that has been heavily pointed. It features a slate roof with an undulating bracket cornice. The windows are recessed horned sash types, with six panes on the second floor and four panes on the first floor. The overall shop front includes end pilasters and fascia end brackets, with a horned six-pane sash window to the right, a two-pane window to the left, and a central entrance with a modern door.
Local climate
Havards receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 54% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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