Crickhowell Adventure is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 25 September 1986. Building.
Crickhowell Adventure
- WRENN ID
- dark-ledge-starling
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Brecon Beacons National Park
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 25 September 1986
- Type
- Building
- Address
- Crickhowell Adventure, 1 High Street, Powys
- OS grid reference
- SO 218 184
- Coordinates
- 51.85905, -3.13693
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Crickhowell Adventure is a three-storey building featuring scribed render and roughcast frontages. The structure has one window for No 1 and two windows for Nos 2 and 3, with No 3 set back and having a plinth. There is an overall cill band on the second floor and an end pilaster strip on No 1. The building has slate roofs, with a cross gable on No 2 that is treated as an open pediment, narrow boxed eaves, and a rendered chimney stack at the right end. The windows are mostly sash style with glazing bars; the second floor of No 2 has segmental heads, while No 1 features lugged architraves. No 1 has a five-light shop front, while Nos 2 and 3 have modern shop fronts. The left gable end is roughcast and includes two-light sash windows.
Local climate
Crickhowell Adventure sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,020 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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