Garden Wall and Arch at entrance to Ty-Cooke is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 18 July 2001. Garden wall, arch.
Garden Wall and Arch at entrance to Ty-Cooke
- WRENN ID
- western-doorway-woodpecker
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Brecon Beacons National Park
- Constituency
- Monmouthshire MP: Catherine Fookes (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 18 July 2001
- Type
- Garden wall, arch
- Address
- Garden Wall and Arch at entrance to Ty-Cooke, Goetre, Pontypool, Goetre Fawr, Monmouthshire
- OS grid reference
- SO 309 052
- Coordinates
- 51.7419, -3.00131
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The garden wall and arch at the entrance to Ty-Cooke is made of carefully squared and snecked sandstone blocks. It is an L-shaped wall that encloses the orchard of Ty-Cooke, stretching approximately 25 meters along the road and about 50 meters up the entrance lane, where it turns a right angle at the former gatehouse. It then makes another right angle and continues as a narrow gabled archway featuring a dovehouse in the gable. This arch provides access to the cobbled yard situated between the two listed houses at Ty-Cooke. The wall stands about 3 meters high, while the corner turret rises to about 4 meters. This turret is square and has been truncated. There is a blocked 17th-century doorway with a drip moulding above it on the ground floor. Above this doorway, the wall has been rebuilt and capped with coping stones. The interior face of the wall was not visible. This turret may have originally served as a gazebo, although the first floor has since been removed.
Local climate
Garden Wall and Arch at entrance to Ty-Cooke receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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