Old Fire Station is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 30 September 1985. Fire station.
Old Fire Station
- WRENN ID
- heavy-rubble-grain
- 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
- Fire station
- Address
- Old Fire Station, Knighton
- OS grid reference
- SO 282 723
- Coordinates
- 52.34439, -3.05432
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Old Fire Station is a tall and narrow building made of coursed rubble, featuring a gable end facing the street. It has been in use as a fire station since at least 1901, as indicated on the Ordnance Survey map, and it was likely converted from an earlier 19th-century agricultural building. The building has a slate roof with plain bargeboards and wide eaves. The gable is roughcast, while the upper part of the front is covered with weatherboarding, which includes one 2-light window. Below, there are double boarded doors, with a letterbox set into the wall to the left. On the right side, there is a 2-pane window. The structure narrows towards the rear and slightly turns east, featuring cambered heads on the door and window openings.
Local climate
Old Fire Station 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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