Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 22 March 1993. Post office.

Post Office

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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Powys
Constituency
Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr MP: Steve Witherden (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
22 March 1993
Type
Post office
Address
Post Office, Llanfyllin, SY22 5AG
OS grid reference
SJ 141 195
Coordinates
52.76637, -3.27368
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Post Office is a three-storey building with a three-window front, constructed from Lanfyllin brick and topped with a steeply-pitched slate roof. It features a large rectangular brick chimney located to the left of the centre. The attic includes one small gabled dormer on the left and a larger one on the right. A dog-tooth brick eaves course adds detail to the roofline.

On the second floor, there are three round-headed casement windows with Y-tracery in their heads. The outer windows on the first floor are similar, while the central window matches their height but has extra light on each side, creating a Venetian window effect. The ground floor has a central window, which was originally a door, featuring a round-arched central light flanked by pointed-arched lights. The basement has camber-headed windows.

To the right, there is a mid-19th century shopfront with steps leading up to a central doorway set back between shop windows. This doorway has panelled jambs, classical-derived pilasters, and a shallow fascia board adorned with quatrefoil decoration above the pilasters, along with raised lettering that reads "Llanfyllin Post Office." Above this area, slate-hanging covers the position of an earlier fascia board that is visible in old photographs.

To the left, there is another mid-to-late 19th century shopfront with steps leading up to an entrance doorway at the corner. A window projecting over the basement window is supported on stanchions, while a larger window faces the Market Square. This section features a dentil cornice. The gable end facing the Market Square has a round-headed casement window near the apex. On the second and first floors, there are two more round-headed casement windows with Y-tracery in their heads, along with an additional similar window to the left of the shopfront.

Local climate

Post Office sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 45 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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