Halifax Building Society & Radnor District Council Offices is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 30 September 1985. Commercial building, offices. 1 related planning application.
Halifax Building Society & Radnor District Council Offices
- WRENN ID
- night-frieze-vale
- 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
- Commercial building, offices
- Address
- Halifax Building Society & Radnor District Council Offices, 3 Broad Street, Knighton, LD7 1BL
- OS grid reference
- SO 285 722
- Coordinates
- 52.34407, -3.04953
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
This is a three-story building dating from the Victorian period, constructed in a Romanesque style. The building’s gable end is set into the street’s slope and is built of patterned brick. It features a tiled roof and a gable parapet topped with a finial. The facade is decorated with light-coloured bands and polychrome detailing around the window arches, dark brick hoodmolds, and yellow brick quoins. On the second floor, two semi-circular windows are flanked by a taller, blind arch containing a Prince of Wales' emblem, with a saw-toothed cornice below. The first floor has three semi-circular windows with leaded glass, incorporating pilasters, nook shafts, and flat foliage detail, along with a cill band. A later, slate-roofed lean-to shop front with three semi-circular leaded lights, similar in style to the adjacent building (No. 2), has been added. A doorway is located on the right side of the building.
Local climate
Halifax Building Society & Radnor District Council Offices 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 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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