Bargain Carfts & Gifts is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 November 1990. Shop. 1 related planning application.

Bargain Carfts & Gifts

WRENN ID
vacant-hearth-dawn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Powys
Constituency
Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr MP: Steve Witherden (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
19 November 1990
Type
Shop
Address
Bargain Carfts & Gifts, 3 Heol Maengwyn, Machynlleth, SY20 8AA
OS grid reference
SH 745 008
Coordinates
52.5907, -3.853
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Bargain Crafts & Gifts is a three-storey building with an attic, featuring a two-window front made of scribed stucco and a slate roof that is continuous with the adjacent Midland Bank. The building has wide dentilled eaves and shares a blue brick chimney stack with the bank. On the right side, there is a gabled dormer with a four-pane casement window. The second floor has twelve-pane sash windows with architraves and bracket cills, while the first floor windows have simple architraves and cornices, consisting of a four-pane sash on the left and an eight-pane sash on the right. The shop front has been modernized. At the rear, there are small pane sash windows.

Local climate

Bargain Carfts & Gifts sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,320 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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