Minfor (formerly Vane Almhouses) is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 November 1990. Almshouses.
Minfor (formerly Vane Almhouses)
- WRENN ID
- former-flagstone-vetch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr MP: Steve Witherden (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 19 November 1990
- Type
- Almshouses
- Address
- Minfor (formerly Vane Almhouses), Machynlleth
- OS grid reference
- SH 745 009
- Coordinates
- 52.59223, -3.85266
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Minfor, formerly known as Vane Almshouses, is a single-storey building with a painted roughcast exterior featuring a symmetrical front that has four bays. The central and penultimate bays are advanced and gabled. It has a slate roof with wide boarded eaves and cresting, along with four pairs of octagonal stone chimney stacks. The building is adorned with ornamental bargeboards that include pendants and finials, although the pendant on the central gable is missing.
The windows are 2-light casements with diamond leaded glazing, and the outer gabled bays have modern glazed infill where the former entrances were located, complete with elliptical arched labels. The central entrance, located below a slate datestone, features a recessed timber panelled door. The rear of the building has twelve windows with a simple diamond pattern glazing.
Local climate
Minfor (formerly Vane Almhouses) sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,320 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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