5 The Bulwark is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 16 December 1976. Terraced house.
5 The Bulwark
- WRENN ID
- dusted-rampart-hyssop
- 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
- Terraced house
- Address
- 5 The Bulwark, Powys
- OS grid reference
- SO 045 284
- Coordinates
- 51.94678, -3.38954
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
5 The Bulwark is part of a short terrace of two properties, numbered 5 and 6, featuring a total of 9 windows. The building has a slate roof and a wooden modillion eaves cornice. The upper storeys facing The Bulwark are pebbledashed, while the ground floor has modern shopfronts. There are pilasters at each end and bands at the first and second floor levels. The upper floors have four-pane sash windows set in moulded architraves. On the ground floor, there are 4 modern shopfronts, along with a doorway that has a door with 2 glazed panels leading to the upper floor. No 5 specifically has a 4-window front.
Local climate
5 The Bulwark 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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