The White Horse PH is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 16 September 1991. Public house. 2 related planning applications.
The White Horse PH
- WRENN ID
- first-timber-sunrise
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 16 September 1991
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The White Horse PH, 13 High Street, Builth, LD2 3DN
- OS grid reference
- SO 041 510
- Coordinates
- 52.1493, -3.40196
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The White Horse Public House is a building that was originally a single house, dating back to its construction as a two-storey structure with a basement at the rear, where the ground slopes down towards the river. It is five windows wide and was originally two rooms deep, featuring a central doorway that led into a passage. The building has since been divided into a public house and a shop.
The roof is slate, with brick chimneys; the western chimney is made of yellow brick, while the eastern chimney, located at the rear of the ridge, is constructed of smaller, flatter red bricks, which are likely original, and has been raised with yellow bricks. The brick walls are known to be in English Bond but are now rendered.
On the street facade, the first floor features five horned sash windows, each with four large panes. The ground floor has shop and public house fronts that are in a late 19th century to early 20th century style, along with one sash window. The dormers in the roof are probably additions from the early 20th century.
At the rear of the building, the original structure is obscured by later additions, primarily from the late 19th and 20th centuries.
Local climate
The White Horse PH sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,080 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2019
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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