The Fountain Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 16 September 1991. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
The Fountain Hotel
- WRENN ID
- other-terrace-ash
- 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
- Cottage
- Address
- The Fountain Hotel, 7 Broad Street, Builth, LD2 3DT
- OS grid reference
- SO 042 510
- Coordinates
- 52.14969, -3.40086
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Fountain Hotel is a three-storey building with an asymmetrical elevation, likely dating from the 18th century, with the roof raised in the early 19th century. It features a slate roof with stone chimneys, including a high extension in red brick on the eastern side.
The front of the building is partly timber framed and roughcast rendered, with a smooth band below the first-floor windows. The second floor has three almost square, nine-pane hornless sash windows that are set shallowly. The first floor contains two taller, twelve-pane horned sash windows that are almost flush with the wall. On the ground floor, there is a central low doorway flanked by three very shallow bay windows with small pane glazing. These bays have been restored but can be seen in photographs from the 1860s. Between the right bays, there are further small windows.
Local climate
The Fountain Hotel 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.
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- 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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