Francis is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 30 September 1985. House.

Francis

WRENN ID
hushed-glass-umber
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Powys
Constituency
Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
30 September 1985
Type
House
Address
Francis, 22 High Street, Knighton, LD7 1AT
OS grid reference
SO 285 723
Coordinates
52.34423, -3.05073
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Francis is a three-storey building with an attic, rising to four storeys at No 22. The front has eight windows, with No 19 rendered and Nos 20-22 roughcast. The slate roof is level but features an undulating ridge, with exposed eaves and a tall central brick stack on the front pitch, along with two end stacks. Nos 19 and 21 have modern two-storey attics with flat-roofed dormers, while Nos 19 and 22 have two-storey extensions to the street, and Nos 20 and 21 have single-storey extensions.

At No 19, there are casement windows on the second floor and 4-pane sash windows on the first floor, all with moulded architraves. The 19th-century double shop front below includes a bracketed hood, a glazed and panelled door, and a brick base. No 20 features casement windows on the second floor and 4-pane sashes on the first floor, all with moulded architraves, along with a modern shop front with a lean-to roof.

No 21 has one offset casement window on the second floor and paired casements on the first floor. It features an 18th or early 19th-century shop front under a lean-to roof, which includes a 10-pane window and a recessed panelled and glazed door with a fanlight. To the left, there is a deep porch shared by Nos 21 and 22, elevated above the street with timber handrails leading up seven steps. The door to No 21 is boarded and glazed, while No 22 has a modern door. The interior of No 21 retains its basic roof construction, featuring tie and collar beams with three tiers of mainly original timber purlins.

No 22 has a half-hipped end tiled roof, with two casement windows on the fourth floor and 4-pane sashes in moulded architraves on the third floor. The second floor has 4 and 6-pane sashes, and the ground floor features a single-paned shop front with a recessed timber and glazed door. The rear elevation has been much altered, with a low cross gable to the left and modern box dormers, one of which is recessed towards the right end. A brick stack is located at the centre of the roof pitch.

Local climate

Francis receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 51% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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