Silver Birch Restaurant is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 9 May 1988. Thatched cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Silver Birch Restaurant
- WRENN ID
- noble-vestry-pearl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr MP: Steve Witherden (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 9 May 1988
- Type
- Thatched cottage
- Address
- Silver Birch Restaurant, 17 Parker's Lane, Newtown, Newtown and Llanllwchaiarn
- OS grid reference
- SO 109 916
- Coordinates
- 52.51525, -3.31412
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Silver Birch Restaurant is a two-storey building constructed with a box frame and square panels. The ground floor features a modern plastered elevation, while the right side has a steeply pitched slate roof and raised eaves on the left. A tall early 19th-century brick chimney stack is built in Flemish bond. The first-floor windows are fitted with various iron casements, and the ground floor has modern windows and a door. There is a cut carriageway to the left of the building.
Inside, there is a lower angle-strut tie-beam truss at the right end, along with axial stop-chamfered beams and a timber-framed partition wall.
Local climate
Silver Birch Restaurant sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,010 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- 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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