Mandarin House (Chinese Take-Away) is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 30 September 1985. Take-away restaurant.
Mandarin House (Chinese Take-Away)
- WRENN ID
- forbidden-hall-grove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 30 September 1985
- Type
- Take-away restaurant
- Address
- Mandarin House (Chinese Take-Away), Knighton
- OS grid reference
- SO 284 723
- Coordinates
- 52.3443, -3.05167
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Mandarin House, a Chinese take-away, is a three-storey building with a basement. The front is finished in cement render, while the right gable end is made of brick and the left gable end features brick and rubble. It has a slate roof with boxed eaves and plain bargeboards, along with brick stacks at the ends. There is a band course above the ground floor. The building has three windows, with paired casements on the second floor and 16-pane sash windows under cambered heads on the first floor. The ground floor features a double shop front with a hood supported by curved brackets, a recessed entrance with a glazed and timber door, and a gated entrance on the right side. To the left, there is a single-storey and attic extension with roughcast walls, a stone plinth, and a slate roof.
Local climate
Mandarin House (Chinese Take-Away) receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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