Black Boy Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 18 July 1949. Hotel.

Black Boy Hotel

WRENN ID
waiting-gargoyle-dew
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Powys
Constituency
Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr MP: Steve Witherden (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
18 July 1949
Type
Hotel
Address
Black Boy Hotel, Newtown, Newtown and Llanllwchaiarn, SY16 2BQ
OS grid reference
SO 108 917
Coordinates
52.51648, -3.31585
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Black Boy Hotel is a three-storey building with a four-window façade, constructed in whitewashed Flemish bond. It features bands at the floor levels and raised eaves that create a gently pitched slate roof, complemented by a saw-toothed eaves cornice. A central panelled brick stack with a new cap is present. The second floor has small paned iron casement windows, arranged in two and three light configurations under the eaves. The first floor has similar transomed windows of three lights each, flanking a dummy window with a two light window above the carriageway. All windows have cambered heads and shallow reveals, with modern leaded windows on the ground floor. An open timber porch with a moulded canopy and brick footings leads to a plank door. To the right is a later carriageway with a timber lintel. The gable end and rear elevations are timber framed, featuring square panels with brick nogging, while the upper panels are later additions. There is also a modern extension at the ground floor. Inside, the axial beams are roughly chamfered.

Local climate

Black Boy Hotel sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,010 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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