Not Just Books is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 10 April 1989. Shop.
Not Just Books
- WRENN ID
- inner-forge-oak
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr MP: Steve Witherden (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 10 April 1989
- Type
- Shop
- Address
- Not Just Books, 13 Great Oak Street, Llanidloes, SY18 6BU
- OS grid reference
- SN 955 844
- Coordinates
- 52.44825, -3.53848
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Not Just Books is a three-storey building with a four-window front made of scribed stucco, dating from the 19th century. It features a slate roof, a cornice supported by modillion brackets, and red brick chimney stacks with stock brick facing at the front. The building has nine and twelve-pane sash windows with cills. The shop front for Not Just Books includes a cornice and pilasters, with two-light shop windows and transoms, as well as a splayed entrance that has a half-glazed door.
Next to it, The Stag has a plain modern shop front with a three-light bar window, flanking pilasters, and a four-panel door with an architrave and bracketed cornice. To the right of The Stag, there is a round-arched entrance leading to a tunnel passage, complete with impost blocks and a keystone, and a boarded door. The left side of the building is slate-hung, while the right side is red brick with small-pane sash windows. There is an attached brick range bonded into the rear and a rubble range beyond.
Local climate
Not Just Books 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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