Unicorn Hotel P.H. is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 10 April 1989. Hotel.

Unicorn Hotel P.H.

WRENN ID
sunken-hall-moth
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Powys
Constituency
Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr MP: Steve Witherden (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
10 April 1989
Type
Hotel
Address
Unicorn Hotel P.H., 5 Long Bridge Street, Llanidloes
OS grid reference
SN 954 845
Coordinates
52.44901, -3.54031
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Unicorn Hotel Public House is a building with a four-window painted brick front and a plinth, dating from the 19th century. It features a slate roof with boarded eaves and a brick chimney stack on the left side. The building has nine and twelve-pane sash windows, which include voussoirs and cills, with one first-floor window having relatively broad glazing bars. A hotel sign is located between the first and second floors on the left.

The main entrance is centrally positioned at No. 4, featuring a broad classical doorcase and a four-panel door. No. 5 has a Victorian shopfront that includes fascia ends, a dentil cornice, and twinned round arches above the window heads supported by colonnettes. There is a central splayed entrance with a narrow frosted glass door. To the right, a cambered carriage arch leads to a gated through passage, with a brick wall on the left and a rubble wall on the right. The rear of the building is constructed of rubble and has modern glazing.

Local climate

Unicorn Hotel P.H. sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,180 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 82% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 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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