Smithfield House is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 10 April 1989. House.
Smithfield House
- WRENN ID
- stark-spire-elder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr MP: Steve Witherden (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 10 April 1989
- Type
- House
- Address
- Smithfield House, Llanidloes
- OS grid reference
- SN 954 842
- Coordinates
- 52.44655, -3.54012
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Smithfield House is a three-storey building with a symmetrical red brick front featuring three windows. The slate roof has wide boarded eaves and red brick chimney stacks at each end. The outer windows are wider on each floor, with 9 and 12 panes on the second floor, 12 and 16 panes on the first floor, and 16 panes on the ground floor. These flank a round-arched entrance that has a four-panel door and a plain fanlight above it. There are low brick walls surrounding the forecourt. The left gable end is finished in pebbledash, while the right gable end is hung with slate. The rear of the building has been modernized.
Local climate
Smithfield House 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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- Sale history — 10 transactions since 2006
- No related consent applications matched
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