Denbigh Cockpit is a Grade II listed building in the Cardiff local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 6 October 1977. Circular structure.
Denbigh Cockpit
- WRENN ID
- eastward-stair-moon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cardiff
- Constituency
- Cardiff West MP: Mr Alex Barros-Curtis (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 6 October 1977
- Type
- Circular structure
- Address
- Denbigh Cockpit, Museum of Welsh Life, St Fagans, St. Fagans
- OS grid reference
- ST 114 772
- Coordinates
- 51.48758, -3.27736
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Denbigh Cockpit is a circular structure built with stone rubble walls and topped with a thatched roof. The walls feature a single doorway and twelve wide unglazed rectangular openings positioned at eaves level. At the top of the roof is an iron weather-cock.
The roof has a complex timber construction, including a cross-beam that spans over thirty feet. Some defective timbers were replaced during the building's re-erection. A crown-post rises from the main cross-beam to support a 12-sided conical roof. Before the re-erection, there were no internal fittings remaining, so these have been reconstructed to create a circular stage surrounded by a gangway. The seating area rises in two tiers to a railed promenade. Additionally, there are four niches in the circular wall at promenade level, and the circular gangway and entrance passage have stone pitched floors.
Local climate
Denbigh Cockpit sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,110 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% 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 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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