Drover's Arms is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 16 December 1976. Public house. 1 related planning application.
Drover's Arms
- WRENN ID
- sharp-ledge-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
- 16 December 1976
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- Drover's Arms, 1&2 Newgate Street, Powys, LD3 8DN
- OS grid reference
- SO 035 283
- Coordinates
- 51.94498, -3.40411
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Drover's Arms is a two-storey building featuring a slate roof with rendered chimneys at both ends and in the center. The front is roughcast and has three windows, with two facets as the road turns and slopes to the right. The right facet, which is larger, has two windows and a roughly central doorway, along with two 12-pane sash windows on each floor and a ledged door. The left facet has two closely set window bays, with a 12-pane sash window on the first floor to the left and two similar windows on the ground floor.
Local climate
Drover's Arms 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 — 7 transactions since 1998
- 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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