Gunley Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 26 October 1953. Hall.

Gunley Hall

WRENN ID
proud-plinth-tarn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Powys
Constituency
Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr MP: Steve Witherden (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
26 October 1953
Type
Hall
Address
Gunley Hall, Forden, Forden with Leighton and Trelystan
OS grid reference
SJ 261 010
Coordinates
52.6024, -3.09218
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Gunley Hall is a two-storey building dating from 1810, designed in a late Georgian style. The front is rendered in Roman cement and lined out to resemble ashlar, with recent stone painting. It features five bays, with the central bay recessed and a projecting porch made of Cefn or similar stone. The porch is supported by attached Ionic columns and an entablature that forms a parapet over a concealed flat roof. The entrance has a pair of oak glazed doors with an overlight, along with a similar inner pair of doors. On either side of the entrance, there are 15-pane sash windows on the ground floor that extend down to the external plinth, framed by slightly projecting surrounds and triangular moulded pediments. The upper floor has 12-pane sash windows with stone sills. The hipped slate roof has wide boarded modilion eaves.

At the eastern end, a three-bay block was added in 1906, which contains a reception saloon that is set forward from the main facade and matches the original style.

Inside, the entrance leads to a stair hall with an apsidal end, featuring a flying stair with a scrolled handrail, simply detailed with stick balusters and cut brackets on the treads. To the left is a billiard room that originally had an Adam style fireplace with Delft tiles, which has since been replaced. The doors are six-panelled, with the middle panels being square. The added saloon boasts an impressive oak chimneypiece dated 1906, featuring two-stage twin fluted columns with gadrooned capitals and a stone fireplace. The room also has panelled shutters with fluted architraves and dentilled entablatures.

Local climate

Gunley Hall 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 55% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 45 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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