2 High Street Inferior is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 16 January 1952. House, shop. 1 related planning application.
2 High Street Inferior
- WRENN ID
- narrow-truss-sable
- 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 January 1952
- Type
- House, shop
- Address
- 2 High Street Inferior, Powys, LD3 7AG
- OS grid reference
- SO 045 285
- Coordinates
- 51.94731, -3.39024
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
This building, originally a house and now serving as shops with accommodation above, dates back to the 18th century. It features two storeys plus attics, with a stucco front and a steeply-pitched slate roof, which has a rendered stone stack at the northwest end. The upper level includes two small box dormers that contain 16-pane sash windows. A modillion eaves cornice adds detail to the roofline.
On the first floor, there are four 12-pane hornless sash windows, each with moulded architraves. The ground floor has two 20th-century shop windows and doorways. To the left, there is a double-fronted shopfront, while to the right, the shopfront has a doorway aligned with the window in the third bay above, along with a display window to the right that is framed by pilasters supporting a fascia board and cornice. At the rear, there is a lower gabled wing made of stone.
Inside, the upper floor retains a well-preserved staircase from around 1700, featuring turned balusters, panelled doors, and dados.
Local climate
2 High Street Inferior 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2025
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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