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
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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