No 1 Timber-yard Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 29 February 1996. House.
No 1 Timber-yard Cottages
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr MP: Steve Witherden (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 29 February 1996
- Type
- House
- Address
- No 1 Timber-yard Cottages, Powis Estate Timberyard, Welshpool
- OS grid reference
- SJ 221 059
- Coordinates
- 52.64559, -3.15169
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
No 1 Timber-yard Cottages, located at Powis Castle Timberyard, were built as a pair of cottages of unequal size around 1830 to 1840. No 1 was extended around 1880 with a wide gabled range to the right.
The original section of the cottages is made from rough random local rubble, while the later gable is constructed from roughly coursed and squared local stone, featuring dressed quoins. Both sections have slate roofs with brick star-shaped axial and side wall stacks. The two cottages create a picturesque appearance, showcasing simplified Tudor-Gothic details. The main range is one and a half storeys high and is symmetrically arranged in a two-unit plan with a central baffle entrance. Internally, the left-hand unit comprises No 2, while the right-hand unit is part of No 1.
No 2 features a gabled porch with a four-centred voussoir arch, flanked by two-light mullioned and transomed iron windows with small panes and drop-ended hood moulds. There are similar two-light casement windows beneath dormer gables, which have wide bargeboards with finials above. No 1 has a similar porch at the centre of its gable, flanked by narrow single-light small-paned windows (which have been renewed or inserted), and a similar two-light mullioned and transomed window above, also with a drop-ended hood mould. The gable has wide bargeboards and a finial.
These cottages are good examples of estate cottage architecture and are part of an important group of buildings at the Powis Estate Timber Yard.
Local climate
No 1 Timber-yard Cottages 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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