Bothy at Machen House is a Grade II listed building in the Newport local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 4 October 1990. Servants' accommodation.
Bothy at Machen House
- WRENN ID
- brooding-entrance-pearl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Newport
- Constituency
- Newport West and Islwyn MP: Ruth Jones (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 4 October 1990
- Type
- Servants' accommodation
- Address
- Bothy at Machen House, Lower Machen, Graig
- OS grid reference
- ST 227 881
- Coordinates
- 51.5866, -3.11613
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Bothy at Machen House is a range of servants' accommodation built in the Georgian Gothic style. It features unpainted roughcast walls and close-eaved slate roofs. The main structure is single-storey and includes one rendered ridge stack for each range, topped with triangular cresting. To the right, there is a two-storey entrance tower, flanked by two ranges of differing lengths: a 7-bay range on the left and a 3-bay range on the right.
The right end has a short square-plan return section with a hipped roof to the northwest and a gabled roof with a short chimney to the south. The windows and doors are pointed; the windows are casement pairs with fixed Y-tracery heads and stone sills, while the doors are flush-panelled. The longer range to the left features one window, two doors, and another window to the left of the ridge chimney, along with three windows to the right. The two-storey tower has a similar window above a similar door, with the upper part designed for glazing and featuring Y-tracery. It also has a string course beneath an embattled parapet and a pyramid roof. The 3-bay range to the right has a window on each side of the door, which also features Y-tracery, with a chimney situated between the door and the right window.
At the southwest return, there is a similar window on the north and west sides. The rear facing the churchyard is constructed of rubble stone with a coped parapet and a string course below. A later addition at an angle to the north end, facing southwest and backing onto the garden wall, has a lower roof but similar eaves, with a rubble stone front that includes broad arched cart entries at the center and right, and a pointed doorway on the left, all featuring thin yellow brick heads.
Inside, the tower entrance hall contains a spiral cast-iron staircase with pierced treads and turned balusters. To the left, there is a large servants' hall with three windows, a plastered curved vault, and a panelled dado.
Local climate
Bothy at Machen House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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