Courtyard range at Brocastle is a Grade II listed building in the Bridgend local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 3 March 1998. Boundary stone.
Courtyard range at Brocastle
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-ledge-magpie
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bridgend
- Constituency
- Bridgend MP: Chris Elmore (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 3 March 1998
- Type
- Boundary stone
- Address
- Courtyard range at Brocastle, Coychurch Lower
- OS grid reference
- SS 935 771
- Coordinates
- 51.48333, -3.53402
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The courtyard range at Brocastle is a long rectangular two-storey building constructed of coursed rubble with dressed quoins, yellow brick dressings, and a Welsh slate roof featuring decorative bargeboards. It has two slate-hung roof dormers with large casement windows facing the courtyard. The courtyard side has three main bays with cambered-headed openings, where most windows have been replaced, although the original 12-pane window remains at the far right. The barn range, which steps forward to the right, features steps leading to high double boarded doors with an overlight, as well as additional boarded doors. The left gable end has casement windows with timber lintels on the first floor and a cambered arch doorway below that includes a boarded door.
On the drive side, there are unaltered small-pane cambered arched casement windows and a central two-leaved boarded door situated above ground level. Numerous horse ties attached to the masonry indicate that the building may have been used primarily for horses.
The interior includes limewashed stone, with the stable on the left retaining boarded partitions and panelling, as well as a tiled floor. The middle section was formerly a feed store. The area on the right, likely a former feed preparation area, preserves original floors and beams with closely set joists. The ceiling trusses consist of a collar between principal rafters and two rows of trenched purlins.
Local climate
Courtyard range at Brocastle sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,170 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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