Castle Du Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 28 October 2005. House.
Castle Du Cottage
- WRENN ID
- stubborn-joist-willow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Brecon Beacons National Park
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 28 October 2005
- Type
- House
- Address
- Castle Du Cottage, Sennybridge, Maescar, Powys
- OS grid reference
- SN 916 282
- Coordinates
- 51.94247, -3.57725
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Castle Du Cottage is a former row of cottages that has been converted into a house. It features white painted rubble stone with an imitation slate roof and four roughcast brick chimneys. The building is a long range, two storeys high. At the right end, there is a double-fronted section with two 9-pane Brecon hopper windows on each floor and a central door. This section has cambered brick heads and stone sills, with chimneys at both ends.
Adjacent to this is a two-bay section that has a central chimney. It includes similar 9-pane sash windows above and 12-pane sash windows below, both with tooled stone sills, but this section does not have a door. The final section to the left is set back and also two-bay, featuring a chimney at the left end. It has a 12-pane sash window on the left side and a 9-pane sash window on the right, with brick heads and stone voussoirs above a door that has a timber lintel and stone shelf. All windows have stone sills. There is a single-storey addition at the right end of the building. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Castle Du Cottage sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,410 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 55 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 31 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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