Stable and Laundry Ranges is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 21 August 1995. Commercial building.
Stable and Laundry Ranges
- WRENN ID
- solitary-pedestal-moth
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr MP: Steve Witherden (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 21 August 1995
- Type
- Commercial building
- Address
- Stable and Laundry Ranges, Brithdir, Berriew
- OS grid reference
- SJ 194 025
- Coordinates
- 52.61504, -3.19042
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The stable and laundry ranges date to the late 18th or early 19th century and display group value. The main range is faced with a rendered finish, and has a shallow slate roof extending beyond the walls on deeply projecting moulded brackets. Brickwork is visible on the end walls, and there are axial chimney stacks. The building is two storeys high, with a five-window facade, and a central, two-storey porch. The lower section of the porch is largely glazed, with a shallow arch forming the entrance, flanked by three subsidiary arches forming a glazed doorway and side lights, all featuring Greek key motifs on the pilasters. Similar arches are above the windows on each side. A two-light window with lattice glazing sits above the door, framed by a double reeded architrave, console brackets, and an entablature hood. A heavy cornice with moulded brackets, echoing the main eaves line, supports a pediment, and scalloped barge boards add to the ornamentation. Late 19th century four-pane sash windows are found on the ground floor, with smaller eight-pane sashes above; a metal window was inserted to the first floor around 1950. The parallel rear range features mullioned and transomed iron-framed windows with small panes on both floors, and two side wall stacks.
The main range is connected by a brick wall with flat stone copings to a stable range to the right and a former laundry to the left. These are both brick buildings with their gable ends facing outwards, blind except for lunettes at their apexes. Lean-to extensions containing doorways and flanking windows project towards the main house.
Inside, the entrance and stair hall are centrally located, with principal rooms opening off to either side and service rooms in the parallel rear range. The entrance hall features a heavy plaster cornice and reeded doorcases with rosettes at the angles. A steep, curved staircase has a swept rail and moulded tread ends. The dining room has a plain marble fireplace and a plaster cornice with a Grecian key motif. The drawing room also features a plain marble fireplace and a deep plaster cornice decorated with anthemia and trailed wheatears. The roof space reveals three distinct phases of building and remodelling in the trusses. Two original trusses remain, featuring king and queen posts with raking struts above the collar; an arched doorway is cut through the western truss. Decorative framing, including cruciform timbers with chevron bracing, is visible in the western gable.
Local climate
Stable and Laundry Ranges 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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