Boughrood Cottage is a Grade II* listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 18 January 1996. Cottage.
Boughrood Cottage
- WRENN ID
- peeling-foundation-merlin
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 18 January 1996
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Boughrood Cottage, Glasbury
- OS grid reference
- SO 127 393
- Coordinates
- 52.04574, -3.27428
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Boughrood Cottage is a 17th-century building featuring a front door positioned opposite the stack, 12-paned sash windows, and a 4-light gabled dormer. The jamb stones bear inscriptions reading WV (17)79 and WIL PHILLIPS. Inside, the cottage has a blocked fireplace and a cruck truss on the inner wall of the end sitting room. There is a gable stack with a stone winding stair on one side and an oven on the other. The roof interior is heavily smoke blackened and includes a plastered division made with wide split laths woven between staves.
Local climate
Boughrood Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,100 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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