Elizabeth's Fashions & Solitaire is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 30 September 1985. Shop, house.
Elizabeth's Fashions & Solitaire
- WRENN ID
- proud-dormer-frost
- 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
- Shop, house
- Address
- Elizabeth's Fashions & Solitaire, 20&21 Broad Street, Knighton
- OS grid reference
- SO 286 723
- Coordinates
- 52.34424, -3.04932
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Elizabeth's Fashions & Solitaire is a Georgian style building featuring two storeys and an attic, with a three-window rendered front. It is likely based on a timber-framed structure from the 17th or early 18th century. The building has stucco quoins with a wave profile and a stepped plinth. The steep slate roof is complemented by brick end chimney stacks positioned at different angles, along with a projecting rendered and brick stack on the right gable end. There are two pitched roof dormers with plain bargeboards, casement windows, and slate hung sides.
The first floor showcases 12-pane sash windows with moulded lugged architraves. The shop front for No 20 is modern, featuring a pediment, fluted pilasters, and a recessed entrance, while No 21 has an advanced shop front.
The roof, likely dating from the 17th or early 18th century, has a visible tie-beam in the attic rooms and a heavy ridge beam. At the rear, there is a lower cross wing, with alterations made for attic accommodation. Inside, there are internal timber partition walls between Nos 20 and 21, featuring square framing.
Local climate
Elizabeth's Fashions & Solitaire receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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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