The Mount is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 12 December 1952. House. 1 related planning application.
The Mount
- WRENN ID
- gentle-truss-saffron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 12 December 1952
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Mount, Rhayader, LD6 5DN
- OS grid reference
- SN 971 680
- Coordinates
- 52.30128, -3.50955
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Mount is a two-storey building constructed from squared rubble, topped with a hipped slate roof and featuring large chimneys at both ends. The façade has three windows with voussoir heads and a band course separating the two storeys.
On the first floor, there are 16-pane hornless sash windows on either side of a central 12-pane sash window. The ground floor features a central doorway that has a classicising doorcase with panelled jambs and an overlight, leading to a six-panelled door. Flanking the doorway are two 16-pane sash windows. To each side of the main block, there are single-storey extensions that are set back; the left extension has a square window, while the right extension has a blind window.
Local climate
The Mount sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,160 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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