Laura Ashley is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 10 April 1989. Commercial building. 2 related planning applications.

Laura Ashley

WRENN ID
blind-corridor-mist
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Powys
Constituency
Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr MP: Steve Witherden (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
10 April 1989
Type
Commercial building
Address
Laura Ashley, 30 Great Oak Street, Llanidloes, SY18 6BW
OS grid reference
SN 954 844
Coordinates
52.4482, -3.53928
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The building known as Laura Ashley is a three-storey, five-bay structure featuring a simple classical design. The front is constructed of stock brick on the second floor, with painted brick on the first floor and rusticated cladding on the right side of the ground floor. It has a hipped slate roof, with hipped projections over the paired outer bays. The central bay was previously recessed, but the ground and first floors were brought forward, likely during its conversion to a cinema. There is a timber balustrade on the second floor, which forms a 'balcony' that is not accessible.

Most of the windows are sash windows, with six and fifteen panes, although there are modern windows on the right side of the second floor. A freestone cill band runs along the second floor. The shop front for Siop Yr Oen has been altered, featuring a projecting fascia below the shop sign and pilasters flanking the window and central splayed entrance. A figure of a sheep is suspended from a bracket on the first floor.

A band course at the fascia level extends across the rusticated cladding of Laura Ashley's, which includes three round-arched openings with an impost band. The left arch is slightly taller and features an iron gate with an overthrow. The central opening has an eight-panel former bank door, while a modern window has been inserted into the former doorway on the right. The side elevations are made of rubble, with the right side painted and featuring three arched openings that were once full height, along with a band course that continues from the front. Some openings are blocked, indicating that there may have been a balcony.

The rear of the building is constructed of rubble with stock brick dressings and has small pane sashes, along with a recessed central bay. The interior has been partially converted, but the second floor retains one room with fluted Corinthian pilasters and bracketed springers for the trusses.

Local climate

Laura Ashley sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,180 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 82% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 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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