Elephant Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 26 August 1988. House. 4 related planning applications.

Elephant Hotel

WRENN ID
moated-landing-crag
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Powys
Constituency
Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr MP: Steve Witherden (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
26 August 1988
Type
House
Address
Elephant Hotel, 46 Long Bridge Street, Llanidloes, SY18 6EF
OS grid reference
SN 954 845
Coordinates
52.44931, -3.53973
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Elephant Hotel is a three-storey building with a five-window front, constructed of red brick in Flemish bond, and colourwashed at No 46. It features a slate roof with a toothed brick eaves cornice and brick chimney stacks. There is a band above the ground floor, along with painted quoins and a plinth at No 46. The original windows at No 44 include 8 and 16-pane sash windows, with the central window featuring brick voussoirs. A white painted section may be hiding a plaque. The ground floor has a cambered coach entry in the centre that leads to a rear yard. Nos 44 and 45 have later plain paired shop fronts with ramped fascias; there is a three-light window to the left, a ventilation band to the right, and doorways at the ends. No 46 has broader windows and a slightly offset doorway, along with a modern hotel sign. The right gable end is slate hung. Inside the passage, the brick is whitewashed, with a boarded door and blocked openings. The rear of the building is half-timbered, featuring thinly cut timbers and brick nogging, along with a later short gabled cross range to the Elephant Hotel made of red brick in English garden wall bond. The windows are mainly horned 4-pane sashes, with two cross frame windows at No 44. There are modern extensions at the property.

Local climate

Elephant Hotel sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,180 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 82% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2000
  • Related listed building consents — 4 applications
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