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
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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