Barc-du, also known as Sawmill Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wrexham local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 4 January 1966. Cottage.
Barc-du, also known as Sawmill Cottage
- WRENN ID
- half-newel-finch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wrexham
- Constituency
- Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr MP: Steve Witherden (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 4 January 1966
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Barc-du, also known as Sawmill Cottage, Llwyn-Y-Cil, Chirk
- OS grid reference
- SJ 277 391
- Coordinates
- 52.94458, -3.07645
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Barc-du, also known as Sawmill Cottage, is a timber-framed cottage dating from the 18th century. It is a single-storey building with an attic, featuring whitewashed panels and a stone front that likely replaces the original framing on the south side. The cottage has a slate roof. The timber framing consists of two square panels in height and eight panels in length. The stone front includes a central boarded door set within a modern timber gabled porch. The layout is a two-unit plan, with paned timber windows on either side and a small gabled dormer above. There are also small windows at the rear. The roof extends over the shoulder of a large gable stack, and the exposed collar and queen strut roof can be seen on the east gable end. The building was not accessible at the time of inspection.
Local climate
Barc-du, also known as Sawmill Cottage receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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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