Old Castle Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 July 1950. Farmhouse.
Old Castle Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- long-passage-pigeon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr MP: Steve Witherden (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 19 July 1950
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Old Castle Farmhouse, Montgomery
- OS grid reference
- SO 220 966
- Coordinates
- 52.56186, -3.15086
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Old Castle Farmhouse is a farmhouse built of red brick in Flemish bond, standing on a stone base. It has one storey, a cellar, and an attic. The building features distinctive shaped brick Dutch gables with brick copings. The northern gable has concave ramped sides and a segmental curved top, while the southern gable also has concave ramped sides but a flat top with a square brick chimney. The southern gable end is windowless and includes an added lean-to brick porch with a central doorway and a timber fixed two-light window to the left, featuring pointed heads on the lights. Inside the porch is a 19th-century ledged door with a four-pane overlight in a pegged frame.
On the western side, there is an eaves dormer with a catslide roof and a pair of small-paned iron casements. The ground floor has cambered-headed windows to the left and centre, with a casement pair to the left and a triple casement in the centre, all featuring iron opening lights. There is a flight of steps leading to the centre ledged cellar door, which has a two-pane overlight and a ventilator. The northern end gable has a cambered-headed casement pair.
The eastern front is particularly notable, featuring a large half-round bowed projection topped with a conical slate roof. There is a 19th-century gabled dormer that breaks the eaves, containing a small-paned iron casement pair. The ground floor has a cambered-headed opening above a small-paned triple casement with top lights and iron opening lights, and a blue brick later sill. The rubble basement has a segmental pointed opening with chamfered red sandstone voussoirs, which may date to the 17th century or earlier, divided by a brick pier with two single-pane casements. To the left, there is a small square window and a door at the far left. The wall to the left of the bow has a massive oak lintel over a tall recess backed by rough brickwork, the purpose of which is unknown.
The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Old Castle Farmhouse 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 greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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