The Posting House including the Potlatch is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 26 March 1985. Residential, shop. 1 related planning application.
The Posting House including the Potlatch
- WRENN ID
- outer-loft-sage
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 26 March 1985
- Type
- Residential, shop
- Address
- The Posting House including the Potlatch, 32 High Street, Presteigne, LD8 2BE
- OS grid reference
- SO 313 645
- Coordinates
- 52.27443, -3.00807
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Posting House, which includes the Potlatch, is a two-storey building with an attic, featuring a red brick frontage. There is a vertical joint towards the left end, projecting headers at the eaves, a band course, and a projecting plinth. The roof is slate with ridge tiles, and there is a rendered centre gablet adorned with bargeboards and an arched window head, although this has been replaced by a plain opening.
The building has 12-pane sash windows set in plain reveals, with cambered heads on the ground floor to the left. A cantilevered two-light bay is positioned above the centre six-panel door, which is flanked by plain pilasters and an entablature. To the right, there is a 19th-century double shop front with pilasters.
The original construction features a box-frame design with brick infill, which is exposed on the gable ends. At the rear, there is a higher original wing with a brick stack, and narrow flush-set sashes are present in the return elevation to the left.
Local climate
The Posting House including the Potlatch receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2023
- 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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