The Garden House is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 29 February 1996. House.
The Garden House
- WRENN ID
- slow-lintel-equinox
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr MP: Steve Witherden (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 29 February 1996
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Garden House, Powis Castle, Welshpool
- OS grid reference
- SJ 217 064
- Coordinates
- 52.64984, -3.15739
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Garden House is a Grade II listed estate cottage, likely built in the early to mid-19th century. It is situated next to the kitchen gardens that once occupied the site of the Fountain Garden, and it faces the drive created in the late 18th century as part of landscaping by Thomas Emes.
The exterior features roughly coursed and squared green local stone, topped with a slate roof. The building has two storeys and includes a long gabled range at the rear with a hipped block at the front. The entrance is located in the gable end of the cross-range facing north and features a chamfered four-centred archway. To the side of the entrance, there is a two-light mullioned window set in a splayed architrave, complete with drop-ended hood moulds on both floors. The gable is coped and corbelled out on moulded kneelers. Similar architectural details are found in the return elevations of the front range, with upper windows located in gabled dormers. The front elevation also has windows with hood moulds on the ground floor and coped gabled dormers above.
The Garden House is recognized as an example of an estate cottage in an outstanding setting.
Local climate
The Garden House receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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