Sun Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 2 March 2004. Hotel.

Sun Hotel

WRENN ID
gaunt-paling-jackdaw
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Powys
Constituency
Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr MP: Steve Witherden (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
2 March 2004
Type
Hotel
Address
Sun Hotel, Llansantffraid-Ym-Mechain Village, Llansantffraid
OS grid reference
SJ 224 203
Coordinates
52.77528, -3.15037
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Sun Hotel is a two-storey establishment built in cream-painted brickwork, facing south towards the main street of the village. The original structure is L-shaped, featuring a three-bay range that faces the street and a rear wing on the east side. The main range has been extended to the east with an additional two bays that are slightly set back. The hotel is topped with regular slate roofs, which include a hip at the return of the main range and an end chimney on the rear wing. There are also further single-storey extensions to the east and at the rear.

The original section of the hotel has three upper windows that are 16-pane hornless-sash types, aligned with the openings below. The ground floor features a central door flanked by larger sash windows similar to those above. To the right of the main entrance is an additional door. Both doors are semi-glazed and have rectangular overlights, with the left door's overlight being blank, and they are covered by canopies supported on brackets.

The later extension to the right includes two 16-pane hornless sash windows above and below, with a central modern semi-glazed door that is topped by a simple pediment. The sides and rear of the building feature modern fenestration.

Local climate

Sun Hotel receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% 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 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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