The Friary is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 10 April 1989. House. 2 related planning applications.
The Friary
- WRENN ID
- endless-step-kestrel
- 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
- The Friary, Llanidloes, SY18 6PG
- OS grid reference
- SN 947 841
- Coordinates
- 52.44494, -3.54929
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Friary is a three-storey red brick building dating from around 1900, featuring a slate roof and wide bracket eaves, although the chimneys have been removed. The front has three windows with freestone quoins and a plinth. The first and second floors have small pane sash windows, consisting of six and two panes, which are adorned with rendered voussoirs and keystones. The ground floor windows are four-light with a high transom and casement openings, set within an architrave made of Ruabon brick, featuring a cambered head and keystone.
Inside, the porch is whitewashed and includes a half-glazed door with stained glass, along with a later broad ironwork porch supported by garlanded uprights. The coach house has a Ruabon brick facade with a crenellated cornice, a broad cambered carriage entry with a keystone and architrave, and double half-glazed and boarded doors. Above the entry are two pies and a fleuron band, with a lean-to roof behind the facade that features a 12-pane sash window, likely reused from the ground floor.
The left gable end is slate hung, while the right side is red brick with a small lean-to. A white-painted stone figure of Our Lady is set on a small rockery. In the late 19th century, the rear of the building was extended, with the original building's quoins still visible. The roof pitch continues, and there is a three-light casement window and a 12-pane sash. A later two-storey kitchen range made of Ruabon brick was added to the right rear, featuring cambered architraves, horned sash windows, and a four-panel back door. The rear wall has few windows due to the hillside being cut away. This extension does not span the full width, and a further lean-to extension from the early 20th century was added to the left rear to raise an original one-storey range.
The interior showcases Edwardian details in the ground floor rooms, including fireplaces and three-well ceilings.
Local climate
The Friary 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2007
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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