The Hollies and front wall, railings and gate is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 30 March 1983. A C19 House. 1 related planning application.
The Hollies and front wall, railings and gate
- WRENN ID
- tilted-eave-thistle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr MP: Steve Witherden (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 30 March 1983
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Hollies and front wall, railings and gate, Montgomery, SY15 6PD
- OS grid reference
- SO 221 962
- Coordinates
- 52.55878, -3.15032
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Hollies is a detached house dating from the earlier 19th century. It is constructed of rubble stone, with a red brick top floor and a brick end-wall stack. The roof is covered with modern concrete tiles. The house has three storeys and is arranged with three bays. The top floor has three square 12-pane sash windows, while the ground and first floors have 16-pane sash windows with stone sills and cambered brick heads. A brick gabled porch with a six-panel door, the top four panels glazed, sits centrally at the entrance. The north gable shows signs of the original roofline, while the south gable has a modern window on each side of the ground floor and a small-paned iron two-light window to the attic. An earlier 19th-century extension is located to the rear southwest, built with brick walls and a slate roof.
A retaining wall of large irregular blocks of green stone runs along the front, featuring a coping and iron railings consisting of four plain horizontal rails with plain uprights. There are 15 sections of railings to the left of the gate and four to the right. A tall 19th-century iron gate has circular uprights with fleur-de-lys finials and scroll tops to the outer uprights, completed with dog bars.
Inside, the entrance hall contains six-panel fielded-panelled doors at the base of an oak staircase with straight balusters. The south room has a plaster panelled ceiling with two beams encased in moulded plaster. The north room features an exposed square ceiling beam and joists. The three front rooms on the first floor are decorated with stencilled patterns directly on the plaster. The room on the north side has a dark blue border around a doorway, featuring repeated patterns of flowers, leaves, and stars, and a dense floral pattern – possibly peonies – on each wall, with the border applied around each opening. The landing area above the entrance has a dense grid of ivy leaves with a gold guilloche-style border on a dark background. The room on the left has a less distinct floral pattern in blue.
Local climate
The Hollies and front wall, railings and gate receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2005
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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