Post Office and Forge Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Monmouthshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 March 2001. Estate houses.

Post Office and Forge Cottage

WRENN ID
broken-brick-mint
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Monmouthshire
Constituency
Monmouthshire MP: Catherine Fookes (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
19 March 2001
Type
Estate houses
Address
Post Office and Forge Cottage, Hendre, Monmouth, Whitecastle
OS grid reference
SO 456 146
Coordinates
51.82751, -2.79004
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Post Office and Forge Cottage is a pair of two-storey estate houses constructed from snecked sandstone, featuring timber-framed porches and red tiled roofs. They replicate the general design of Fairoaks and Pen-y-cwm but are arranged as a unified and symmetrical range. Each end has a projecting gabled bay, with a pair of smaller gables in the center, and there is a small side wing with a porch at the west end.

At the junction of each outer bay, there is a gabled timber-framed porch with a slate roof, which includes a corbelled semicircular outer arch and open square-panelled timber detail on the gable. The porches have round-arched openings on the sides, an inner side bench, and a part-glazed door. Above each porch, tucked under the eaves, is a very shallow two-light mullioned window. Each outer gabled bay features a canted bay window with wooden transomed glazing and a hipped tiled roof, along with a transomed three-light window in the inner bay and a cross-window on the first floor above these, with the center windows rising into dormer gables.

Between the upper and lower windows of the gabled outer bay, there is a square plaque carved with a quatrefoil that contains Lord Llangattock's monogram "Ll" and the date 1893. The eaves and gables oversail, with plain bargeboarding and finials on the gables. A chimney stack with six tall octagonal chimney pots is located at the center of the roof. Attached to the west return wall of the left house is a short single-storey side wing, which features a lower but wider porch in the same style as the others, protecting a doorway and a wall letterbox.

Local climate

Post Office and Forge Cottage receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% 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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