The Parish Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 23 May 1974. Tollhouse, school.

The Parish Hall

WRENN ID
ragged-gravel-bittern
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Powys
Constituency
Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
23 May 1974
Type
Tollhouse, school
Address
The Parish Hall, Llanfihangel Rhydithon
OS grid reference
SO 150 667
Coordinates
52.29205, -3.24646
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Parish Hall is a single-storey octagonal tollhouse built in 1848. It features coursed rubble walls, a hipped slate roof with leaded ridges, and boxed eaves. There is a blocked former entrance on the roadside, above which is a stone plaque stating, "This school was erected by subscriptions of the Freeholders and Inhabitants of this parish AD 1848."

On the north-west side, the original projecting rubble stack is now capped by the roof. The two side walls flanking the entrance each have a single window with a flat voussoir arch and stone cill, as well as tall mullion and transom lights with small-pane glazing. There is also a blocked window at the north-west end.

An entrance section connects the former tollhouse to a taller single-storey school-room that has a high pitched roof. This section is constructed of rubble blocks with ashlar quoins and window dressings. The slate roof features two small dormer lights near the ridge, and the gable end is encased in tin sheeting. The entrance door is boarded and set in a shouldered arch doorway, while the school-room has twin paired sash windows with a central chamfered ashlar mullion. The rear of the building is plain.

Local climate

The Parish Hall receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 62% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 31 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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