No. 2 Black Hall Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 30 March 1983. Cottage.
No. 2 Black Hall Cottage
- WRENN ID
- cold-brass-rye
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr MP: Steve Witherden (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 30 March 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- No. 2 Black Hall Cottage, Montgomery
- OS grid reference
- SO 222 968
- Coordinates
- 52.56421, -3.14776
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
No. 2 Black Hall Cottage is part of a range of cottages known as Blackhall Cottages, which runs east to west and features a canted eastern end. The building is constructed of rubble stone, with No. 1 being painted, while No. 2 is not whitewashed. The cottages have a slate hipped roof with deep flat eaves typical of the early 19th century, and red brick stacks with a raised band on the western end wall and on the ridge between Nos 1 and 2.
The building is two storeys high. The southern front primarily showcases No. 1, with only the right bay and the canted end representing No. 2. No. 1 has undergone significant alterations. The first floor features a large cross-window to the left of centre and three small rectangular single casements to the right. On the ground floor, there is a door with a brick cambered head flanked by two small windows with stone voussoirs above their heads; the door has been converted into a cross-window, and the small windows are now blocked. The three bays in the centre and right, which align with the small upper windows, include a doorway and two modern inserted windows. The doorcase has plain pilasters and frames a half-glazed door with a blocked overlight.
No. 2 has one window on each floor with cambered heads and stone voussoirs, featuring modern casement pairs, although both openings were blocked in brick in 1983. The doorway to the right has modern panelled doors within a modern pedimented doorcase, and a ledged door with stone voussoirs was added in 1983. The eastern end of No. 2 is three-sided, with similar windows on the southeast and northeast canted sides, while the eastern facet is windowless. The rear of the building includes a later 19th-century stone wing, which is single storey with a slate roof, terracotta ridge tiles, and a blue brick ridge stack on the axis. The windowless eastern wall and northern gable end feature a cambered-headed door to the right.
Notably, there is an underground cell in this part of the building where prisoners were kept in irons.
Local climate
No. 2 Black Hall Cottage receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 45 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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- Sale history — 5 transactions since 1998
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