5 Severn Square is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 9 May 1988. House.
5 Severn Square
- WRENN ID
- silent-keep-ivory
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr MP: Steve Witherden (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 9 May 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- 5 Severn Square, Newtown, Newtown and Llanllwchaiarn
- OS grid reference
- SO 109 916
- Coordinates
- 52.51581, -3.314
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
5 Severn Square is a three-storey building with a cellar, featuring a symmetrical brick front laid in Flemish bond. The gently pitched slate roof has a pitch daubed finish and is adorned with a saw-toothed eaves cornice and later bargeboards. There are brick stacks projecting to the right, which have new caps.
The second floor has shallow eight-pane sash windows flanking a similar six-pane window. The first floor displays sixteen-pane sash windows flanking a twelve-pane sash window. The ground floor has sixteen-pane sashes above cellar openings. The flat arches are formed with gauged brick voussoirs, and the reveals are plain with stone sills.
Stone steps with handrails lead up to plain doorcases that feature a dripboard. The entrance includes a shallow rectangular fan and a 19th-century panelled door. Iron railings with dog-bars enclose the forecourts.
The rear elevation is constructed in English garden wall bond and features cambered header arches above the casement windows. There is an offset, tall narrow stair sash window, and a modern lean-to has replaced a former gabled extension on the right.
Local climate
5 Severn Square sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,010 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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