12 Lion Street is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 31 May 1961. Commercial building.
12 Lion Street
- WRENN ID
- haunted-granite-vetch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Brecon Beacons National Park
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 31 May 1961
- Type
- Commercial building
- Address
- 12 Lion Street, Powys, LD3 7HY
- OS grid reference
- SO 045 286
- Coordinates
- 51.94801, -3.39087
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
This building at 12 Lion Street is a shop with accommodation above, dating from the 19th century. It has three storeys and a four-window front facing Lion Street, featuring pebbledash with rusticated quoins and a plinth. The second floor has four small modern windows that were formerly hopper windows with glazing bars. The first floor includes sash windows without glazing bars. On the ground floor, there is a central modern shop window flanked by modern doors in the outer bays. At the rear, the building has a double-gabled stucco elevation with bargeboards that have pendants. Each gable features a window with an architrave on the first floor, and on the ground floor, there is also a modern display window or doorway, which is set within an architrave.
Local climate
12 Lion 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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