44 High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 25 September 1986. House. 2 related planning applications.

44 High Street

WRENN ID
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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
House
Address
44 High Street, Crickhowell, Powys, NP8 1BE
OS grid reference
SO 217 183
Coordinates
51.85787, -3.13798
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

44 High Street is a rendered single-storey building with an attic, presenting an early 20th-century appearance but constructed from 17th-century materials. It features a very large, steeply pitched slate roof with an undulating ridge and overhanging boarded eaves. There are two rubble end chimney stacks, one of which has been heightened in brick, and two swept roof dormers with casement windows. The ground floor has triple arched heads to the outer windows, which flank a central splayed bay with ogee-headed lights; all these windows are set in square recesses and were not present in a view from 1898. At the rear, there is a recessed boarded door and a lean-to extension.

Inside, the building retains two fine late medieval fireplaces, likely removed from the nearby castle, located at each end of the full-length ground floor room. One fireplace features a large stone lintel, while the other has a four-centred arch with a chamfered timber lintel. The interior also includes feather stop chamfered beams and boarded doors, as well as a reset piece of post and panel partition with fleur de lys moulding. The roof structure consists of a four-bay collar rafter design with dowelled timbers, mostly original.

Local climate

44 High Street 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 5 transactions since 1997
  • Related listed building consents — 2 applications
  • 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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