23 High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 29 February 1996. House.

23 High Street

WRENN ID
muffled-span-grove
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Powys
Constituency
Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr MP: Steve Witherden (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
29 February 1996
Type
House
Address
23 High Street, Welshpool
OS grid reference
SJ 222 076
Coordinates
52.66083, -3.15127
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

23 High Street is a two-storey house with an attic, built from painted brick and topped with a steep slate roof that features a brick axial stack on the left side. Originally designed with a four-window range, it now has a two-window range. The entrance is located to the right and consists of a battened plank door framed by a plain architrave and hood, accompanied by a 16-pane sash window. There is also a blocked doorway next to a similar window on the left side. The first floor originally had four windows with cambered brick heads, but the current windows are replacements. On the right, there is a hornless 16-pane sash window, and on the left, a renewed casement window with a transom, both of which have altered the original openings. The roof features two dormer windows, each with two lights and shallow leaded roofs. The rear elevation still retains some original windows with camber-headed openings and cast iron windows with transoms.

Inside, the entrance leads to a through passage, which is now blocked at the back. The internal wall exposes square panelled timber-framing. The house has a single unit, double pile plan, with an axial chimney. A cambered bressumer above the fireplace remains in the rear room, and there is an oak staircase against the upper end wall, featuring some turned balusters.

Local climate

23 High Street receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 50% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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