Old College Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 16 December 1976. House - terrace. 3 related planning applications.
Old College Hall
- WRENN ID
- turning-pier-candle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Brecon Beacons National Park
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 16 December 1976
- Type
- House - terrace
- Address
- Old College Hall, 19 Bridge Street, Powys, LD3 8AH
- OS grid reference
- SO 041 285
- Coordinates
- 51.94699, -3.39618
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Old College Hall is a three-storey building that currently functions as a shop with accommodation above. It features a three-window front and has a slate roof with chimneys at each end. The front wall is rendered, with end pilasters that have egg and dart moulding on their capitals, and there are decorative bands at both the second and first floor levels. The building has a stone plinth.
The window openings are adorned with moulded stuccoed architraves; the wider openings at the ends contain triple sash windows without glazing bars, while the central windows have glazing bars. Both ground floor windows consist of one large pane. The central flat-arched doorway is flanked by plain pilasters and has a panelled frieze, a cornice supported by enriched brackets, and a four-panelled door with panelled reveals and a plain shallow rectangular fanlight.
The left side of the building, which faces Silver Street, has a gabled return with end plasters. There is a single sash staircase window at the rear, and a single storey rear wing that features modern detailing.
Local climate
Old College Hall sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,260 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% 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 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- 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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