The Mountain Centre is a Grade II listed building in the Herefordshire, County of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 March 1986. Hostel. 1 related planning application.
The Mountain Centre
- WRENN ID
- winter-string-hyssop
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Herefordshire, County of
- Constituency
- Hereford and South Herefordshire MP: Jesse Norman (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 March 1986
- Type
- Hostel
- Address
- The Mountain Centre, Longtown, HR2 0LD
- OS grid reference
- SO 322 290
- Coordinates
- 51.95574, -2.98769
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Mountain Centre, formerly known as The New Inn, is a building that dates back to the 18th century and has undergone alterations and extensions in the late 19th and 20th centuries. It is constructed from rendered sandstone rubble and features a Welsh slate roof. The building is designed in an L-shape, facing west, although the rear is obscured by later additions. It has gable-end stacks and a central entrance leading to the main wing, which is aligned north to south.
The structure stands two storeys high, with attics and cellars. The west front includes two 20th-century gabled dormers with three-light casement windows, as well as three glazing bar sash windows. An open gabled porch leads to an inner ledged door. To the left of the upper floor window, there is a partially damaged stone plaque that bears the name "New Inn." Inside, the building has been altered but still features a late 18th-century or early 19th-century dog-leg staircase with turned balusters.
Local climate
The Mountain Centre 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 greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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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- 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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