Lansdowne Hotel, including block to rear in Lansdowne Terrace is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 16 January 1952. House.
Lansdowne Hotel, including block to rear in Lansdowne Terrace
- WRENN ID
- idle-obsidian-coral
- 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 January 1952
- Type
- House
- Address
- Lansdowne Hotel, including block to rear in Lansdowne Terrace, 39 the Watton, Powys, LD3 7EG
- OS grid reference
- SO 046 283
- Coordinates
- 51.94573, -3.38823
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Lansdowne Hotel, which includes a block at the rear in Lansdowne Terrace, is a three-storey building with an early 19th-century exterior. It features stuccoed fronts with five bays facing The Watton and an irregular five-bay layout to Lansdowne Terrace. The roof is slate and hipped to the right, with paired bracket eaves. There are bands at the second and first floor sill levels.
On the second floor, there are nine-pane inward opening hopper windows; the first floor has 12-pane sash windows set in reveals with moulded architraves. The ground floor has a central doorcase with wooden pilasters, an architrave, a frieze, and a cornice on consoles, with a modern door. Flanking this are two wide 16-pane sash windows in openings with moulded architraves.
Returning to Lansdowne Terrace, there are two windows on each of the three floors, featuring 4-pane sash windows in architraves, except on the top floor. To the right, there is a doorway with a doorcase that includes pilasters and a cornice on consoles, leading to a part-glazed panelled door. Adjacent is a lower three-window, three-storey block with four-pane sash windows in architraves, except for the top floor. The ground floor has a central doorway similar to those in the rest of the building.
Inside, there are panelled doors and an early 19th-century staircase.
Local climate
Lansdowne Hotel, including block to rear in Lansdowne Terrace 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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