Frankwell Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 10 April 1989. Cottage.
Frankwell Cottage
- WRENN ID
- hallowed-gargoyle-scarlet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr MP: Steve Witherden (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 10 April 1989
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Frankwell Cottage, Llanidloes
- OS grid reference
- SN 954 848
- Coordinates
- 52.45126, -3.54018
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Frankwell Cottage is a two-storey building that has undergone modern renovation. The front is long and roughcast, featuring two windows on the left and one on the right, with a timber band between the first and ground floors and a painted rubble base topped with pegged weatherboarding. The slate roof has wide boarded eaves and a large red brick chimney stack opposite the entry. The building has 12-pane sash windows with oak sills and flush frames, which are 19th-century glazing set in 18th-century openings. To the right of the centre, there is a broad 19th-century doorcase with a later gabled hood and cusped bargeboards supported by fluted brackets.
Inside, the building contains twin doorways leading to Frankwell House and Frankwell Cottage, featuring timber architraves and boarded doors with brass fittings. The rear has a cat slide roof, and the right gable end has two small windows along with an additional window that may have been added for a bread oven. The left gable end is covered with asbestos tiles, and there is a modern lean-to built on the site of a former barn that was used for wool cleaning. The rear has modern alterations, exposing timber framing at the top and a bricked recess to the right.
The interior of the main house retains oak beams, some of which are feather stop-chamfered, and features six-panel doors. An oak staircase rises from the main room, complete with a swept-up handrail, although the balustrade has been removed. The dining room on the left shows evidence of Georgian alterations, with a twin-well ceiling and cornicing. The square panelling of the timber frame is exposed on the left end wall, and the attic has A-frame roof trusses with two rounded purlins on each pitch, along with wattle and daub partitions. There is an inner connecting door to the cottage, which retains a cobbled floor, boarded doors, and a tightly winding narrow staircase.
Local climate
Frankwell Cottage sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,160 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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