Beechview is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 20 March 1998. Cottages.
Beechview
- WRENN ID
- stark-pinnacle-starling
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr MP: Steve Witherden (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 20 March 1998
- Type
- Cottages
- Address
- Beechview, Moel Y Mab, Forden, Forden with Leighton and Trelystan
- OS grid reference
- SJ 249 053
- Coordinates
- 52.64099, -3.11034
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Beechview, formerly known as Tank Cottages, consists of a pair of single-storey cottages built in the early 1850s for estate workers. These cottages were constructed during the time when John Naylor, a Liverpool banker, acquired the Leighton Estate and initiated a significant building program that included Leighton Hall and other structures designed by WH Gee. The cottages reflect a hierarchy of status in their design, with stone-faced lodges in prominent locations contrasting with these simpler brick labourers’ cottages.
The cottages are made of brick and feature rusticated stone quoins and a plinth band. They have a hipped slate roof with brick stacks located behind. The entrances are situated in the end walls, and the cottages are double-fronted with 12-pane sash windows framed in dressed stone surrounds. Each cottage has a two-window front with similar windows on the end walls. The rear walls also have sash windows with stone lintels and sills, overlooking walled gardens.
There is a modern porch and door added to the left side wall, as well as a porch at the rear garden. The property was not inspected in November 1996.
Local climate
Beechview 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 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 45 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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