29 Short Bridge Street is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 10 April 1989. Town-house.

29 Short Bridge Street

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Powys
Constituency
Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr MP: Steve Witherden (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
10 April 1989
Type
Town-house
Address
29 Short Bridge Street, Llanidloes
OS grid reference
SN 953 845
Coordinates
52.44895, -3.5408
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

29 Short Bridge Street is a three-storey building with scribed cement render fronts. It features one window for No 29, which was formerly two storeys, and two windows for Nos 30 and 31. No 31 has rusticated quoins. The roofs are slate, and the chimney stacks are brick, modern for Nos 29 and 31. The eaves are supported by brackets. The windows are mainly recessed sash types with various small pane sizes, while No 30 has modern windows. Voussoirs and keystones are present at the first and ground floors, with the first floor detail only on No 31. No 31 has Victorian splayed bays with dentil cornices and four-pane sash glazing. The entrance to No 29 features a round arch with a boarded door leading to a tunnel passage, while No 30 has a square-headed entrance with a Victorian bracketed doorcase and a four-panel door to No 31.

At the rear, there is a partly cobbled yard. No 29 includes a two-storey cross range with a rubble base, boarded and half-glazed doors, and casement windows. The rear gable end has a fireplace from a formerly adjoining range that extended to the rear of Picton Street. The rear of No 30 is constructed with a brick nogged timber frame and has various casement windows. A full-height cross range, added after 1887, projects from the rear and once formed part of a network of small courtyards, as shown on a 1963 map. The ground floor is rubble, with brick above and brick nogged half-timbering on the second floor or weaving loft, which features louvred openings. The rear of No 31 has a fully exposed square panelled timber frame, with the second floor displaying diagonal braces and thinner scantling, likely indicating a weaving loft.

Contemporary railings are present at the front, featuring two tiers of finials that return along the pathway to the tunnel passage door. The interior of No 30 has been modernized, while No 31 has been converted into flats, retaining panelled reveals to the bay windows.

Local climate

29 Short Bridge Street 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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