Flanking Walls to Brithdir Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 11 March 1981. House.
Flanking Walls to Brithdir Hall
- WRENN ID
- ragged-gable-nettle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr MP: Steve Witherden (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 11 March 1981
- Type
- House
- Address
- Flanking Walls to Brithdir Hall, Berriew
- OS grid reference
- SJ 194 025
- Coordinates
- 52.61469, -3.19066
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The flanking walls are part of Brithdir Hall, a building constructed in the late 19th century. The main range has a façade of lined-out render, topped by a shallow slate roof with deep, overhanging eaves formed by moulded brackets, a brick end wall, and axial stacks. The building is two storeys high and has a five-window arrangement, with a central, two-storey porch. The porch has a mainly glazed lower storey, featuring a shallow archway to the entrance filled with three subsidiary arches enclosing a glazed doorway and side lights, incorporating Greek key motifs on the pilasters. Similar arches are above the windows on each return. A two-light window with lattice glazing sits above the door, surrounded by a double reeded architrave, console brackets, and an entablature hood. A heavy cornice with moulded brackets, echoing the main eaves line, complements the pedimented porch, finished with scalloped barge boards. Late 19th century four-pane sash windows are present on the ground floor, and smaller eight-pane sashes are above, with one metal window inserted on the first floor around 1950. A parallel rear range features mullioned and transomed iron-framed windows with small panes on both floors, and two side wall stacks.
The main range is connected by a brick wall with flat stone copings to a stable range (to the right) and a former laundry (to the left). Both are brick buildings with outward-facing gable ends that are largely blind, except for a lunette at the apex. Each has doorways with flanking windows in lean-to extensions facing the house.
The interior is arranged with an entrance and stair hall centrally located, with principal rooms opening off to either side, and service rooms in the parallel rear range. The entrance hall has a heavy plaster cornice, and doorcases feature heavy reeding with rosettes at the angles. A steep curved staircase rises, with a swept rail and moulded tread ends. The dining room contains a plain marble fireplace, with a Grecian key motif to the plaster cornice. The drawing room also has a plain marble fireplace, and a deep plaster cornice adorned with anthemia and trailed wheatears. The roof space displays three distinct phases of building and remodelling in the trusses. Two original trusses remain, featuring king and queen posts with raking struts above the collar, including an arched doorway cut through the western truss. Decorative framing is visible in the west gable, featuring cruciform timbers with chevron bracing.
Local climate
Flanking Walls to Brithdir Hall 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 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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