Mount Severn is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 10 March 1953. House.
Mount Severn
- WRENN ID
- waiting-entrance-rook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr MP: Steve Witherden (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 10 March 1953
- Type
- House
- Address
- Mount Severn, Llanidloes, SY18 6PQ
- OS grid reference
- SN 942 840
- Coordinates
- 52.44405, -3.55698
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Mount Severn is a two-storey building with roughcast elevations, featuring droved plinths and a first-floor cill band. It has a hipped slate roof, stone chimney stacks, and very wide boarded eaves. The main elevation faces south and originally consisted of five bays, with the central three bays advanced and splayed. Most windows are small pane sash windows, with some multipane metal frame windows; there are stone steps leading up to the ground floor windows. At the rear, there is a segmental headed stairwell window that is partially concealed by an extension.
The east end elevation, which faces down the drive, has two windows with 12 and 15-pane sashes, along with a central casement window added to the first floor. The ground floor features lugged architraves. Set back at right angles is a lower two-storey extension built around 1900, which contains the main entrance. This entrance features a five-light small pane casement above an Ionic portico with pilasters and paired columns, leading to recessed half-glazed doors. To the right, there is an advanced hipped bay with a cill band, followed by a two-window section set back beyond it and a gable-ended section advanced at the extreme right end. The west front has two windows and an added early 20th-century bay on the first floor, along with a plain timber verandah. There is a lean-to on the return side and a two-storey service wing set back, which features a variety of sash and casement windows, brick chimney stacks, and a jettied half-timbered lean-to. At right angles, linked by a low wall, is a two-storey outbuilding with scribed render.
Inside, there is a rectangular entrance hall that includes a marble chimneypiece and two oval reliefs, with lozenge panelled reveals. The dining room, which was formerly the drawing room, features an anthemion cornice with egg and dart and rosette trails, six-panel doors with panelled doorcases, and white marble chimneypieces. The library has pilasters to fitted bookcases. A cantilevered staircase with 's' shaped tread ends leads to arched openings on the landing, and the stairwell has a segmental arched ceiling.
Local climate
Mount Severn sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,220 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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