Castle Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 2 March 2004. Cottage.
Castle Cottage
- WRENN ID
- dark-jamb-evening
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr MP: Steve Witherden (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 2 March 2004
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Castle Cottage, Colfryn, Llansantffraid
- OS grid reference
- SJ 210 175
- Coordinates
- 52.74981, -3.17179
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Castle Cottage is a two-unit timber-framed cottage or small house, positioned end-on to the road, with its front elevation facing a garden to the southeast. The cottage features irregular framing at the front, which becomes more regular at the rear. The lighter timbering in the top panels at both the front and rear suggests that the eaves have been raised. The west gable wall is made of brick and includes a small central porch, while the east gable is constructed of stone and brick, with a walled-up door position. The cottage has a slate roof with brick end chimneys. The front windows are arranged irregularly, with two small pane windows above and three below; the window on the right appears to have replaced a door, and there is another lost door position indicated on the left side of the front elevation. At the rear, there are two large ground floor windows and two smaller upper windows, which have modern timber casements.
Inside, the cottage is divided unevenly into two parts by a fine post and panel partition, featuring chamfered arrisses on its east face. Two doors suggest that the smaller unit to the west was likely composed of two rooms.
Local climate
Castle Cottage receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 50% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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