4 St Mary Street is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 31 May 1961. Shop. 1 related planning application.

4 St Mary Street

WRENN ID
graven-buttress-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
31 May 1961
Type
Shop
Address
4 St Mary Street, Powys, LD3 7AA
OS grid reference
SO 045 284
Coordinates
51.94677, -3.39084
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

4 St Mary Street is a former house that has been converted into a shop with accommodation above. The building has two storeys plus an attic and features a three-window roughcast front facing St Mary Street. It has a slate roof with three hipped dormers that contain small-pane casement glazing. The eaves are adorned with a modillion cornice, and there is a band course between the floors, with plain pilasters at each end.

On the first floor, there are twelve-pane sash windows, while the ground floor features a central doorway flanked by a three-light canted bay window on either side. These bay windows have an enriched frieze and the sash windows do not have glazing bars. The central round-headed doorway has panelled reveals and is topped by a semi-circular fanlight with tracery, leading to a fielded panelled door.

Inside, the ground floor shop is now one open space, retaining the remains of a barrel-vaulted entrance hall. At the rear right, there is an elliptically-arched recess that is flanked by fluted Doric pilasters and has panelled reveals.

Local climate

4 St Mary 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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