Swan Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 16 September 1991. Hotel.

Swan Hotel

WRENN ID
veiled-forge-fern
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Powys
Constituency
Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
16 September 1991
Type
Hotel
Address
Swan Hotel, Builth, LD2 3AG
OS grid reference
SO 040 509
Coordinates
52.14816, -3.40358
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Swan Hotel is a two-storey building with attics, constructed from snecked local stone and featuring painted freestone dressings. It has a slate roof with a brick chimney and a double-pitched Mansard roof that includes attic windows covered by an extended slope of the upper pitch. The front elevation consists of five windows arranged in groups of 1+1+2, all with segmental heads beneath straight bracketed hoods.

On the first floor, there are five windows beneath a cornice supported by moulded stone brackets. All windows are horned sashes with large panes, and they feature painted stone lintels with scalloped decoration and moulded painted stone sills. The entrance doorway is asymmetrically placed, with one window to the left and two to the right. The doorway has a round-headed arch made of painted stone, complete with a large keystone and brackets, and displays a painted relief of a swan in the tympanum. The double wooden doors include elliptical windows.

The ground floor windows are three-part horned sashes with large panes, each having painted stone lintels with scalloped decoration and moulded stone sills beneath shallow relieving arches. At the right end of the building, there is a broad doorway with a flat head, also beneath a shallow relieving arch, which leads to the rear yard.

Local climate

Swan Hotel sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,080 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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