Bod-Isa Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 11 March 1981. Cottage.
Bod-Isa Cottage
- WRENN ID
- worn-quartz-twilight
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr MP: Steve Witherden (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 11 March 1981
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Bod-Isa Cottage, Guilsfield
- OS grid reference
- SJ 220 117
- Coordinates
- 52.69744, -3.15454
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Bod-Isa Cottage is a Grade II listed building featuring a forward wing that is heavily framed, consisting of two panels high and raised on a high rubble plinth. This wing includes corner braces, tie and queen struts supporting a collar on the gable wall. The main range has been rebuilt in brick and features an entrance located in a 20th-century porch at the angle, which includes a four-panelled door and a hood supported by cut brackets. The porch is decorated with various 17th-century and later carved and moulded timbers.
The windows were remodeled in the late 19th century, showcasing timber Tudor arched lights with label moulds, with two and three-light windows on the first floor. There is a canted bay window to the southwest of the entrance, also featuring four-centred lights. The building has cut bargeboards, and the main range displays a distinctive late 19th-century crow-stepped raised gable end along with a brick stack. This stepped theme continues onto the adjoining 20th-century garage to the southwest.
Bod-Isa Cottage, which was formerly a billiard room, is connected to the northeast gable of the main range by a lower link block. The windows and doors have been altered in the 20th century. Inside, some timber framing is exposed, and there are chamfered spine beams with ogee stops. A notable feature is the finely carved corner fireplace surround, signed AW 1680, which is said to have originated from Cumbermould Abbey in Cumbria.
Local climate
Bod-Isa Cottage receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 50% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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