3 Church Street is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 29 February 1996. Commercial building. 1 related planning application.

3 Church Street

WRENN ID
lesser-footing-nettle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Powys
Constituency
Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr MP: Steve Witherden (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
29 February 1996
Type
Commercial building
Address
3 Church Street, Welshpool, SY21 7DL
OS grid reference
SJ 225 075
Coordinates
52.65986, -3.14713
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

3 Church Street is a building that appears to have been constructed as a single development around 1800 to 1820. Number 2 was likely built as a house, with a small shop added in the late 19th century. Numbers 3 and 4 were built around the same time, almost certainly as a warehouse for the grocers' business at 22 Broad Street. Today, the properties house two shops and a restaurant.

The exterior is made of brick and features a slate roof. Number 2 is four storeys high with a single window range. It has a late 19th-century shop front on the ground floor and 12-pane sash windows with steep cambered heads above. The warehouse range is also four storeys tall and has a four-window range, with paired openings on either side of what was once a loading bay, now shown as a slightly recessed narrow bay with inserted windows. To the left, there is a small shop front added next to a surviving original doorway, which has a high overlight and a cambered brick head. To the right is a larger shop front that now serves as the restaurant. The original pattern of openings in the upper storeys remains mostly intact, although the windows themselves have been renewed. A deep dentilled eaves band runs across both properties.

This building is listed as part of a group of structures at the town's center and is a representative example of a warehouse built to support commercial premises. This type of building was once common in Welshpool, and this particular example is prominently located and has maintained the functional qualities of its design despite changes in use.

Local climate

3 Church Street receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 61% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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