Mansion House including Country Style (formerly Bennett's Shop) is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 24 October 1974. House.

Mansion House including Country Style (formerly Bennett's Shop)

WRENN ID
fading-wall-finch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Powys
Constituency
Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
24 October 1974
Type
House
Address
Mansion House including Country Style (formerly Bennett's Shop), 42 High Street, Presteigne, LD8 2BE
OS grid reference
SO 313 644
Coordinates
52.27397, -3.00748
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Mansion House, also known as Country Style (formerly Bennett's Shop), is a 2-window building with a stucco front and a band over the first floor. It features a pitched slate roof with moulded eaves and gable bargeboards. The façade includes tripartite sash windows set in flush wooden frames. There is an entry to a passage on the left, which has an ornamental fanlight above a 6-panel door. To the right, there is a low 2-storey, 1-window extension with a projecting double shop front beneath an overall fascia that extends from the main front. The lane wall at the right end displays timber-framing with a horizontal moulded beam.

The passage has a 2-storey timber-framed and whitewashed elevation, with the first floor jettied and partly cut away to expose the framing. At the rear, there is a lower roughcast range featuring 16-pane sash and case windows on the first floor.

The interior of the rear wing, which is separated from the front building by a cross passage, likely contained an open hall with probable aisled-truss construction. Notable surviving details include a variety of roll-moulded beams and a finely carved bracket with traceried spandrel.

Local climate

Mansion House including Country Style (formerly Bennett's Shop) 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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