Whitehall House is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 26 March 1985. House.
Whitehall House
- WRENN ID
- lapsed-pedestal-barley
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 26 March 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Whitehall House, Presteigne
- OS grid reference
- SO 314 643
- Coordinates
- 52.27313, -3.00637
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Whitehall House is a two-storey building featuring three gabled bays. Its exterior is finished with scribed stucco and topped with undulating slate roofs. On the left side, there is a tall mid-roof brick stack. The 19th-century fretted bargeboards are adorned with finials. The building has four double-hung sash windows with glazing bars set in flush frames, and a small bay window on the ground floor to the right. The entrance boasts a fine open pediment doorpiece supported by fluted pilasters, a traceried fanlight, and a six-panel door. There are also ironwork handrails leading up to the steps.
Local climate
Whitehall House receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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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