The Old Cockpit is a Grade II* listed building in the Conwy local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 23 September 1950. Chapel.
The Old Cockpit
- WRENN ID
- roaming-balcony-swallow
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Conwy
- Constituency
- Bangor Aberconwy MP: Claire Hughes (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 23 September 1950
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- The Old Cockpit, Walled Town
- OS grid reference
- SH 780 775
- Coordinates
- 53.2811, -3.83047
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Old Cockpit is a circular building with a straight chord on the southeast side, standing two stories high. It features pebble-dashed brick walls and five windows, all beneath a conical slate roof, although some slates were missing at the time of the survey. The southwest front has an added gabled porch with a panel door. Above and to the right of the porch are two small-pane windows that have been inserted into deeper original openings, which still retain their original wooden lintels and stone sills. The left side of the building is overgrown.
At the rear, there are two round-headed small-pane sash windows with Gothic intersecting glazing bars; the left-hand window is situated above an inserted boarded door. To the right, above a lean-to against the vestry of Tabernacl, there is a similar but shortened window that retains its intersecting glazing bars and is positioned above an inserted top-hung casement.
The interior has been converted for use as a chapel of rest and features a cross-beam similar to that found in the Denbigh Cockpit at the Welsh Folk Museum in St Fagans.
Local climate
The Old Cockpit sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,100 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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