The Castle (formerly The Castle PH) is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 26 March 1985. Public house.
The Castle (formerly The Castle PH)
- WRENN ID
- dim-tracery-shade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 26 March 1985
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Castle (formerly The Castle PH), Presteigne
- OS grid reference
- SO 313 644
- Coordinates
- 52.27415, -3.00776
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Castle, formerly known as The Castle Public House, is a two-storey building featuring a three-window front that is finished in white roughcast with black-painted detailing. The bowed walling indicates jettying at the first-floor level. It has a slate roof with end bargeboards and brick stacks, along with a modern flat-roofed dormer that includes a cut-down Venetian window and a dentil cornice.
On the first floor, there are two double-hung sash windows with glazing bars set in flush frames. To the right, there is a two-storey splayed bay, and to the left, a 19th-century ground floor bay with heavy detailing. The large central bay on the ground floor features fixed glazing and an overall lean-to roof, supported by plain columns on either side of the doors.
The left gable end and rear of the building display timber studding with brickwork infill. A massive rear stack, heightened in red brick and topped with a moulded cornice, adds to the structure's character.
Local climate
The Castle (formerly The Castle PH) 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings