White Rock is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 5 April 1993. Gates, screens, lodges.

White Rock

WRENN ID
last-pavement-autumn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Powys
Constituency
Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr MP: Steve Witherden (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
5 April 1993
Type
Gates, screens, lodges
Address
White Rock, Carreghofa
OS grid reference
SJ 260 212
Coordinates
52.78406, -3.09723
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

White Rock is a two-storey building constructed with a rendered exterior on an exposed rubble base. It features slate roofs that are all gabled with swept eaves, decorative bargeboards, and moulded pendants, except for a hip at the north-west corner. The building has three large square ridge stacks and a tall projecting stack with distinctive long raking shoulders on the gable of the left-hand wing. The windows are two, three, or four-light leaded casements of varying proportions but designed similarly, with thick timber mullions and heavy wrought fittings. The front entrance consists of a heavy plank door flanked by two windows with pilaster surrounds, and a moulded cornice runs along the tops of the windows and around a flat-headed canopy over the entrance.

There are outbuildings that include an attractive range of stone and timber-framed structures with slate roofs extending from the north-east wing, which are remnants of the older farmstead. A detached stone-built granary features a stone gable and steps, alongside an adjacent range of timber and brick for workshop and storage use.

Inside, the dining room showcases exposed beams and joists, along with an inglenook bay that has an inset stone arched fireplace and a plain wood mantel with small plank cupboards inset above either end. The sitting room features a large panelled and moulded wood fire surround. The interior also includes heavy framed plank doors with wrought iron fittings, wood block floors, solid stairs with plain newels and plain turned thick balusters, as well as a moulded handrail and moulded closed string.

Local climate

White Rock receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 66% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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