Cain Valley Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 25 October 1951. Villa.
Cain Valley Hotel
- WRENN ID
- scattered-gravel-dew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr MP: Steve Witherden (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 25 October 1951
- Type
- Villa
- Address
- Cain Valley Hotel, Llanfyllin
- OS grid reference
- SJ 142 195
- Coordinates
- 52.76629, -3.27283
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Cain Valley Hotel is a three-storey building constructed from painted local brick, with the ground floor rendered. It features seven bays, painted quoins, and a slate roof that has three rectangular brick chimneys positioned forward of the ridge. The upper storey contains almost square small-pane windows, with old photographs indicating that four of these were "tax-painted" dummies. On the first floor, there is a central camber-headed window (blocked/dummy) flanked by three twelve-pane sash windows on each side, all with brick lintels. The ground floor has a central entrance doorway set behind a flat-roofed Tuscan porch, with two broad camber-headed windows on each side, each containing a pair of twelve-pane sashes.
At the rear, the building has a lower eaves line and features a late 19th-century range in red brick on the right side. The elevation facing Bridge Street includes a gable end with slightly overhanging upper storeys on the first floor, which has a two-light and a three-light small-pane casement window. The ground floor has a central doorway with paired sash windows to the right.
To the right of the gable, there is a long outhouse range constructed from painted rubble with slate roofs. The first section has two storeys, featuring two small-pane sashes on the first floor. On the ground floor, there is a broad camber-headed window with a pair of twelve-pane sashes on the left and a small camber-headed window on the right. The right section has a steeper roof pitch and a cross gable, with a single window on the first floor and three small camber-headed windows on the ground floor.
Inside, the entrance hall showcases an exposed timber-framed wall with a jowled front post and remnants of a jettied front, including exposed beams in the lounge bar. At the rear, a fine 17th-century staircase rises the full height of the building, featuring tapering newel posts with carved bosses and pendants, fretted splat balusters, and a moulded handrail. The outbuildings facing Bridge Street enclose parts of a timber-framed building that has been later encased in stone, which is said to contain old roof trusses and traces of wind-braces.
Local climate
Cain Valley Hotel sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 45 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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