Old Cockpit is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 20 October 1966. Pit.
Old Cockpit
- WRENN ID
- under-cloister-larch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr MP: Steve Witherden (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 20 October 1966
- Type
- Pit
- Address
- Old Cockpit, Welshpool
- OS grid reference
- SJ 224 074
- Coordinates
- 52.65953, -3.14819
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Old Cockpit is a 2-storey octagonal building constructed of brick and topped with a graded slate roof. It features single ring cambered heads above the doorway and windows, which are primarily located at the first floor level to illuminate the pit inside. The windows are 2-paned with small panes, and the ground floor windows are boarded. One window above the entrance, located beneath the eaves, has early leaded lights.
Inside, the lower storey has a cobbled floor, and two parallel beams supported by rough chamfered posts carry the first floor. This level includes a reconstruction of the original boarded enclosure surrounding the pit. The roof is supported by a central post and features a king-post truss that is braced to eight main rafters. A date of 1821 is scratched into the tie beam.
Local climate
Old Cockpit receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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