The Old Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 14 June 1952. House.
The Old Hall
- WRENN ID
- sombre-solder-ivy
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 14 June 1952
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Hall, 36 West Street, Builth
- OS grid reference
- SO 038 509
- Coordinates
- 52.14872, -3.40592
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Old Hall is a two-storey building with a hipped slate roof and two brick chimneys. It features painted roughcast rendering, a smooth plinth band, and band courses. The front elevation is low and broad with five windows, including a central gable that has a round-headed attic window. On the first floor, there are twelve-pane hornless sash windows arranged in a shallow grouping of 1+3+1. The central doorway has glazed double doors with a lamp above, while doorways at each end have six-panelled doors.
On the left side, there is a smooth-rendered wing showing traces of scribed 'coursing'. This wing has two twelve-pane sash windows on the first floor and a panelled door under a modern canopy on the ground floor, with a square casement window to its left. The right side features a wing made of painted rubble with a string course, containing one square window with a modern frame and shutters. There is also a later 19th-century extension with a half-glazed door under a canopy.
Inside, the building retains timber-framed partitions and evidence of former partitions, such as mortices in exposed ceiling beams. All three dwellings share identical staircases, likely from the early 19th century.
Local climate
The Old Hall sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,080 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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