The Square is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 11 March 1981. House.
The Square
- WRENN ID
- silver-glass-rowan
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr MP: Steve Witherden (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 11 March 1981
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Square, Guilsfield, SY21 9NJ
- OS grid reference
- SJ 218 115
- Coordinates
- 52.69629, -3.15725
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Square is a Grade II listed building featuring a combination of stone and timber framing with colourwashed infill panels and part uncoursed stone. It has a random slate roof. The timber framing is close studded, with corner braces and decorative angled bracing in the front gable. The entrance consists of a timber boarded door with a small light, and there are timber three-light casement windows. The stone section on the right includes camber headed three-light transomed casements.
Inside the wing, there is a front parlour that contains a large brick stack with four flues, likely from the 18th century. It features a chamfered cross beam with check and scoop stops. The rear wall is also framed, and the rear chamber has been extended in the 20th century, now lacking historic features. The main posts are not jowled. The roof has a single tier of purlins and principal rafters that cross at the apex with a tenoned ridge piece. The stone building also has a single tier of purlins made from reused timber that is morticed for windbraces.
Local climate
The Square receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 50% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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