2 Waterloo Place is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 11 March 1981. School.

2 Waterloo Place

WRENN ID
drifting-arch-storm
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Powys
Constituency
Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr MP: Steve Witherden (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
11 March 1981
Type
School
Address
2 Waterloo Place, Welshpool
OS grid reference
SJ 231 078
Coordinates
52.66312, -3.13731
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Nos 1-4 Waterloo Place are a pair of local ashlar buildings with a slate roof and brick axial stacks, dating from the 19th century. They are two storeys high and feature an 8-window range, consisting of two houses on either side of a central passageway. The layout is symmetrical, with two-unit houses at each end, the right one incorporating a shop, and single-unit houses in the center, each with doorways located beside the round-arched passage entry. The doorways have 6-panelled doors with overlights, all framed in moulded architraves with cornice hoods. The windows are 16-pane sash types with painted sills, and there are blind windows above the doors of the outer premises. The shop in the right-hand unit features a mid-19th century, two-light shop window with small panes and a moulded architrave.

The return elevation facing Salop Road is also two storeys high and consists of a 9-window range that includes three houses and a shop front, which is the continuation of the shop from Waterloo Place. This elevation is made of brick and has full-height pilasters on either side of the doorways. It has a hipped slate roof with end wall stacks and oversailing eaves. The shop to the left of the terrace features a doorway flanked by late 19th century shop windows on the ground floor, with 16-pane sash windows above that have painted gauged brick heads. Each of the houses at Nos 1-3 has a central entrance flanked by 2-pane sash windows on each floor. No 3 retains its original 6-panelled door, and all entrances are adorned with panelled architraves.

Local climate

2 Waterloo Place receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 61% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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