No.3 Argoed Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 28 February 2005. Cottages.

No.3 Argoed Cottages

WRENN ID
half-hall-plum
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Powys
Constituency
Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
28 February 2005
Type
Cottages
Address
No.3 Argoed Cottages, Doldowlod, Nantmel
OS grid reference
SN 994 628
Coordinates
52.2546, -3.47411
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

No. 3 Argoed Cottages is part of a group of three cottages that create a single symmetrical design. The central cottage, No. 2, is two stories tall, while the outer cottages, Nos. 1 and 3, are one and a half stories with lower eaves and entrances located in the side walls. The cottages are built from snecked rubble with brick quoins and dressings, topped with a steep slate roof featuring two brick ridge stacks. The windows are original small-pane wooden casements.

Cottage No. 2 has a half-glazed panelled door with an overlight, situated within an open lean-to porch supported by posts. It features two-light windows with transoms on the lower floor and shorter two-light windows on the upper floor. The central upper window is positioned beneath a brick gable. The outer cottages, Nos. 1 and 3, each have central doorways in the side walls, also with half-glazed panelled doors and overlights, and a pentice that extends across the entire elevation on wooden posts. Above each doorway, there is a two-light brick half dormer.

On the gable ends facing the road, the cottages have three-light transomed bay windows on the lower floor and two-light windows above. The rear of the cottages is slate hung on the upper story, featuring two-light windows in the upper storey of the cross wings, with additional structures present on the lower storey.

Local climate

No.3 Argoed Cottages sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,160 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% 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 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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