Youth Hostel Association and Heritage Centre (former Primary School) is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 30 September 1985. Former primary school, heritage centre.

Youth Hostel Association and Heritage Centre (former Primary School)

WRENN ID
drifting-joist-crimson
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Powys
Constituency
Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
30 September 1985
Type
Former primary school, heritage centre
Address
Youth Hostel Association and Heritage Centre (former Primary School), Knighton
OS grid reference
SO 284 724
Coordinates
52.34583, -3.05118
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Youth Hostel Association and Heritage Centre, formerly a primary school, is a mid-Victorian Gothic building featuring a symmetrical single-storey and attic design. It has outer cross-gables and paired gables at the center, with lateral extensions at the outer ends. The structure is built with rubble walls and freestone dressings, complemented by rusticated quoins. The slate roofs are adorned with cresting and have rubble and brick chimney stacks. The outer gables include parapets and attics that are illuminated by small rectangular lights.

The outer windows are notable for their grouped 4-light cusped design, set beneath banded relieving arches. The center of the building is slightly set back and features two steep-pitched gables, ornamental bargeboards with scissor braces, and 2-light bar traceried windows. To the right, there is a pitched roof rubble porch with a Berkeley arch leading to the entrance. Additionally, there are two later additions that extend forward to the street, featuring square-headed windows. The rear of the side elevations includes Gothic windows.

Local climate

Youth Hostel Association and Heritage Centre (former Primary School) 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 51% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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