No. 2 Rock Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 30 March 1983. Cottage.

No. 2 Rock Cottages

WRENN ID
secret-rubble-peregrine
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 Rock Cottages, Montgomery
OS grid reference
SO 221 970
Coordinates
52.56525, -3.14963
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

No. 2 Rock Cottages is a cottage made of white painted rubble stone, featuring a slate eaves roof and a red brick stack at the right end. It is one storey high with an attic and has a double fronted design. The cottage includes large 19th-century eaves that break into gabled dormers, with a cambered-headed window on each side of the door. On the ground floor, there is a pair of casement windows with small panes and iron opening lights, positioned beside a cambered-headed ledged door. The two gabled dormers are adorned with bargeboards and finials, and they contain long casement pairs with small panes, iron opening lights, and old catches. Above the door, there is a recessed panel that has been infilled since 1983. A straight joint in the front wall indicates the connection to The Piggin. The rear elevation features exposed square panels of timber-framing with plaster infilling.

To the left, there is a matching single bay 19th-century addition with a brick end stack, a similar dormer, and a rendered wall over a renewed slate lean-to roof. This addition includes a three-sided bay window and an open porch leading to a modern door. The end wall is partly brick and partly stone, suggesting that it was built up from a lower outbuilding.

Inside, the joists and beams in the right room are covered over, while the left room features a chamfered axial beam and joists.

Local climate

No. 2 Rock Cottages 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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