YMCA Building is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 31 July 1995. A C19 House.
YMCA Building
- WRENN ID
- fading-tallow-bracken
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 31 July 1995
- Type
- House
- Address
- YMCA Building, Rhayader
- OS grid reference
- SN 971 679
- Coordinates
- 52.30019, -3.50931
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The YMCA Building is an early to mid 19th-century, two-storey house featuring three windows on the front. It is constructed of grey coursed stone and has a hipped slate roof with two stone chimneys positioned towards the ridge. The first floor includes three 16-pane hornless sash windows. The ground floor features a central doorway with a classicising surround, a six-panelled door, and a diamond-paned overlight, with 16-pane sash windows flanking the doorway. The left side elevation (south) has two 16-pane hornless sash windows on each floor. At the rear, facing South Street, there is a later 19th-century extension that matches the style and materials of the original building.
Local climate
YMCA Building sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,160 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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