Cheese Market is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 24 October 1951. Market building.
Cheese Market
- WRENN ID
- spare-cellar-rain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Brecon Beacons National Park
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 24 October 1951
- Type
- Market building
- Address
- Cheese Market, Hay, Powys, HR3 5AE
- OS grid reference
- SO 229 423
- Coordinates
- 52.0744, -3.12546
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Cheese Market is a simple classical two-storey building dating from the 18th century. It features coursed freestone elevations facing High Town and Market Street, with a central pediment that contains a blind recess, possibly intended for a date stone, and a rock-faced plinth on the former elevation. The roof is slate, complemented by a rubble chimney stack and very wide eaves with a moulded cornice.
The ground floor is open and railed on the north and south sides, showcasing twin segmental arches in antis with a single central column and responds. The arches are adorned with tooled voussoirs and keystones. The western end is constructed of rubble, which may indicate that it was once attached to another building, but it now features a modern shelter. The building has small pane sash windows and an entrance at the southeast end, which consists of an eight-panel double door framed by an architrave, with panelled reveals and a fanlight above. Modern public conveniences have been added into the right-hand opening on the south side.
Inside, the building retains a broad oak staircase and half-round fluted columns surrounding the fireplace in the upper room.
Local climate
Cheese Market receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 54% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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