Stable Cottage, coach house and stables at Doldowlod House is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 28 February 2005. A C19 Coach house and stables.

Stable Cottage, coach house and stables at Doldowlod House

WRENN ID
sombre-gravel-wax
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Powys
Constituency
Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
28 February 2005
Type
Coach house and stables
Address
Stable Cottage, coach house and stables at Doldowlod House, Nantmel
OS grid reference
SN 997 625
Coordinates
52.25191, -3.47025
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The complex comprises a coach house and stables, along with Stable Cottage, situated at Doldowlod House. The coach house and stables date from the 19th century, specifically 1835, as indicated by inscriptions on the stone dressings. They are constructed of rubble stone with tooled dressings, and have a slate roof with projecting plastered eaves.

The L-shaped layout features a south-eastern range with lofted storage. This range exhibits round-headed openings with freestone heads and prominent keystones. Two alternating small-pane wooden cross windows and boarded doors are present, with a replacement loft shutter above the left-hand doorway. At the right end, between full-height freestone pilaster strips, are two pairs of double boarded doors and a two-light loft window.

The south-western range includes a round-headed doorway on its right side. The voussoirs are inscribed with '1835' and 'Davies, Mason' acknowledging the mason’s work. This doorway has a boarded door and a small-pane overlight. Later openings are also present along this range. To the left of the original doorway are a pair of Tudor arches with double-panelled doors. Further left is another round-headed doorway with a boarded door and small-pane overlight, and a round-headed small-pane wooden cross window at the left end. The side wall incorporates a short, gabled rear bay and features four cast iron vents positioned under segmental, rock-faced quoins, along with a loft opening. The rear of the gabled bay has two small-pane windows under lintels and a matching loft window. The rear of the south-western range includes a small-pane segmental-headed window, a boarded door with a loft door above it (both featuring blue-brick jambs), and a two-light small-pane window to the left of these. A right-hand gabled bay is attached to a rubble-stone wall, enclosing a small yard.

Stable Cottage is situated at the south-east end of the south-eastern range. It’s a tall, three-and-a-half-storey structure with freestone angle pilaster strips, a slate roof with projecting plastered eaves, and a hipped roof to the right, featuring a stone stack on the roof slope facing the yard. The lower storey has a pair of double-panelled doors, and a round-headed doorway to the left, leading to a stone staircase. The middle storey (effectively the lower story of the cottage) has a two-light small-pane casement window to the right, and a replaced window above it, both under flat stone arches. A large sundial with gnomon is centrally positioned on the upper storey. The cottage is built against a steep bank, and the rear elevation has its entrance on the upper storey; an entrance bay on the right side has tooled stone pilasters, a panelled door under a flat stone arch, and splayed walls with a canted small-pane bay window. Above the bay window is a triangular-headed small-pane attic window, with a similar window in the north-west gable end.

The building was not inspected internally.

Local climate

Stable Cottage, coach house and stables at Doldowlod House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,160 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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