Castle Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 11 May 1990. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Castle Cottage
- WRENN ID
- forbidden-floor-grove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Brecon Beacons National Park
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 11 May 1990
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Castle Cottage, Tretower, Llanfihangel Cwmdu with Bwlch and Cathedine, Powys, NP8 1RE
- OS grid reference
- SO 184 213
- Coordinates
- 51.88442, -3.18561
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Castle Cottage is a one-and-a-half storey, double fronted cottage built from rubble stone and topped with a slate roof featuring end stone stacks. The lower storey has openings that are under renewed timber lintels, and there are gabled dormers. The gable ends have inserted openings also with timber lintels, and there is a lean-to at the rear.
Inside, the cottage has closely spaced stop-chamfered cross beams with no joists. There are fireplaces at both ends, each with a projecting chimney breast, and the hall fireplace includes a stone staircase to the right. The roof is three-bay and features upper crucks, which may have been reused from a dwelling shown on a 1538 estate map, along with collars and stop-chamfered tie beams.
Local climate
Castle Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,100 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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