Llanfair Guest House is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 16 September 1991. Guest house. 2 related planning applications.
Llanfair Guest House
- WRENN ID
- moated-cellar-cream
- 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
- Guest house
- Address
- Llanfair Guest House, 1 the Strand, Builth, LD2 3BH
- OS grid reference
- SO 040 510
- Coordinates
- 52.14963, -3.40422
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Llanfair Guest House is a two-storey building dating from the 19th century. It features a slate roof and a red brick chimney, with grey, coursed flat rubble walls that have hammer-dressed quoins, dressings, and voussoir lintels.
The front of the building faces east and has a shallow-pitched hipped roof with widely overhanging boarded eaves. It includes three sixteen-pane horned sash windows. The central entrance door is framed by a classical Doric style porch supported by columns. The north-facing side elevation has three windows, with the end windows on the ground floor featuring added splayed bays in painted stone, each adorned with three round-headed arches and pairs of gothic style columns that have ringed shafts and foliage capitals. Above the cornice, there are cast iron rails to balconies, which previously had canopies at the eaves level. The balcony rails display coats of arms with lions supporting a shield that features a sheaf of corn and a bird. The end windows on the first floor have been altered to form French doors leading to the balconies, while the central window remains a sixteen-pane sash. Below this, there is a smaller sash window on the ground floor. The south wall of the main block has an inserted broad window on the first floor, which is dressed in blue brick.
At the rear, there is a lower two-storey service range with a low-pitched hipped roof and overhanging eaves. This range is constructed of slightly larger, browner flat rubble than the main block, and its fenestration has been somewhat altered with blue brick dressings. Between the main block and the service block, there is a two-storey flat-roofed infill that is rendered.
Inside, the sitting room and dining room, which have bay windows, retain original late Georgian style details, including fireplaces and decorated beams. A datestone on the low garden wall adjacent to the bay windows bears the inscription 'J Vaughan 1874'.
Local climate
Llanfair Guest House 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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