White Castle Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Monmouthshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 27 October 2000. Cottage.
White Castle Cottage
- WRENN ID
- late-timber-indigo
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Monmouthshire
- Constituency
- Monmouthshire MP: Catherine Fookes (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 27 October 2000
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- White Castle Cottage, Abergavenny, Whitecastle
- OS grid reference
- SO 380 167
- Coordinates
- 51.84566, -2.90044
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
White Castle Cottage is a two-storey building with rubble stone walls and a fibre-cement roof. It features a stone end-stack to the north and a projecting gable stack to the south. The east front faces the road and has 20th-century windows that simulate glazing bars and have concrete sills. The ground-floor openings have segmental arches made of stone voussoirs. On the first floor, from left to right, there is a 6+6 window, a larger 6+6 window, a 6+6+6 window, and another 6+6 window. The ground floor includes a blocked doorway on the far left, followed by an 8+8 window, a 20th-century boarded door, a 6+6+6 window, and a 6+6 window on the far right. Attached to the north end-gable is a single-storey open garage with a gabled roof.
The south elevation features a rear wing on the left and the gable of the main house on the right. The windows here also have segmental arches of stone voussoirs and shallow sills. On the first floor to the left is a 6+6 pane casement window, and on the ground floor, there is a corresponding window and an 8+8 casement window to the right. There is a blocked door in the rear of the cross wing at first-floor level, along with later infill in the rear angle between the blocks.
Inside, the room to the right of the entrance hall has chamfered beams, with at least one beam being re-used, and stop-chamfered joists. The room to the left of the hall also has chamfered joist beams. The roof of the front block features two heavy trusses with mortice and tenon collars, and the corbels or wall-posts are visible in the bedroom below, with a later truss at the junction with the cross wing.
Local climate
White Castle Cottage receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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