Unicorn Hotel P.H. is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 10 April 1989. Public house.
Unicorn Hotel P.H.
- WRENN ID
- western-zinc-wax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr MP: Steve Witherden (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 10 April 1989
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- Unicorn Hotel P.H., 4 Long Bridge Street, Llanidloes
- OS grid reference
- SN 954 845
- Coordinates
- 52.44896, -3.54032
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Unicorn Hotel Public House is a 19th-century building featuring a four-window painted brick front with a plinth. It has a slate roof with boarded eaves and a brick chimney stack on the left. The building includes 9 and 12-pane sash windows with voussoirs and cills, one of which is located on the first floor and has broad glazing bars. A hotel sign is positioned between the first and second floors on the left side. The main entrance is centrally located at No. 4, featuring a broad classical doorcase and a four-panel door. No. 5 has a Victorian shopfront with fascia ends, a dentil cornice, and twinned round arches above the window heads supported by colonnettes. There is a central splayed entrance with a narrow frosted glass door. To the right, there is a cambered carriage arch leading to a gated through passage, with a brick wall on the left and a rubble wall on the right. The rear of the building is constructed of rubble and features modern glazing.
Local climate
Unicorn Hotel P.H. 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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