Attached chapel cottage (also known as Rookwood Cottage) is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 31 January 1995. Demolished.

Attached chapel cottage (also known as Rookwood Cottage)

WRENN ID
half-nave-kestrel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Powys
Constituency
Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
31 January 1995
Type
Demolished
Address
Attached chapel cottage (also known as Rookwood Cottage), Bronydd, Clyro
OS grid reference
SO 228 451
Coordinates
52.0995, -3.12806
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Rookwood Cottage is an attached chapel cottage built in an L-plan design. It is a two-storey building with a slate roof, set into a slope with the chapel positioned higher up and the cottage at the base. The structure features a rubble plinth. The cottage has rubble end walls that include projecting chimney stacks, and the lower half of the front wall likely replaces lost timber-framing, while the upper floor retains square-panel framing. The cottage has 20th-century glazing, mostly consisting of small timber casements, along with a part-glazed door beneath a plain hood.

The chapel section has a stone-tile roof and weatherboarded side walls above the high plinth, with a rendered gable end that includes a gabled porch. It features similar window designs to the cottage.

Inside, the cottage showcases substantial jowelled wall posts and roof trusses, along with exposed chamfered beams and some visible wall framing. The chapel has a simple interior with large tie beam trusses that are partially exposed beneath a modern boarded ceiling at collar level. There is a simple boarded reading desk located at the south end, accessed by steps.

Local climate

Attached chapel cottage (also known as Rookwood Cottage) receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 54% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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