II*Public · listed 1976GwernyfedOn the list as Gwernyfed High SchoolPhoto: Jeremy Bolwell · CC BY-SA 2.0
Photo: Andrew Jones · CC BY-SA 2.0–Not graded
History of Three Cocks · Cadw
8 listed buildings, 2 of them Grade II*
Cadw counts them inside Three Cocks’s built-up area, 258 for every 10,000 residents. Of the listed buildings in Three Cocks, 6 are Grade II. 37% of its homes were built before 1919.
Listed buildings
8
258 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
0
exceptional interest
Grade II*
2
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
0
1 registered park or garden
Homes built before 1919
37%
typical UK town 15%
In pictures
Landmarks of Three Cocks
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Photos from Wikimedia Commons and Geograph, copied to our own server, each credited to its photographer with its licence; names open the building’s page or its official list entry.
The map
Where Three Cocks’s history is
Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park.
Grade II*Park or garden
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8 listed buildings by grade
0 Grade I2 Grade II*6 Grade II
Cadw lists buildings of special architectural or historic interest in three grades: Grade I for buildings of exceptional interest, Grade II* for particularly important buildings of more than special interest, and Grade II for buildings of special interest. Listing protects the whole building, inside and out.
Every entry on Cadw’s register of listed buildings whose point lies inside the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary. One list entry can cover a terrace or a group of buildings.
Grade II*
The 2 Grade II* listed buildings in Three Cocks
Particularly important buildings of more than special interest. 1 is photographed. Each opens its own page, with the official list entry.
House · listed 1976Stable Block at Gwernyfed High School
Grade II
6 Grade II listed buildings
Most listed buildings are in this grade, which covers buildings of special interest. Open any building to read its official list entry.
All 6 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Continuation walls to Gwernyfed High School LodgeFront railed screen and gate piers at Gwernyfed High SchoolGardener's cottage at Gwernyfed High School (Gwernyfed Park)Glasshouses in kitchen garden at Gwernyfed High SchoolKitchen garden walls, gatepiers and gates at Gwernyfed High SchoolThe Three Cocks Hotel
Monuments & landscapes
Monuments, parks and gardens
Designations that overlap the town by a tenth of their area or half a hectare.
1 registered park or garden
Old Gwernyfed & Gwernyfed ParkGrade II* · Elizabethan/Jacobean manor house with formal garden enclosures with later additions on the south-east edge of a large former deer park; three fishponds to south-west of house and relict orchards to north and south
Homes by age
37% of Three Cocks’s homes were built before 1919
Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).
36%
Before 1900
0%
1900–18
1.3%
1919–29
1.3%
1930s
1.3%
1945–54
14%
1955–64
8.4%
1965–72
2.6%
1973–82
11%
1983–92
6.5%
1993–99
8.4%
2000–08
5.2%
2009–15
3.9%
2016–25
Three CocksEngland & Wales
36% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1955–64, which added 14% of today’s homes.
Valuation Office Agency, council tax stock of properties by build period, 31 March 2025, for the neighbourhoods (LSOAs) that make up the town, split by where their residents live. Homes with no recorded build period (0 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.
Neighbours
Listed buildings in the places around Three Cocks
| Town | People | Listed | Grade I | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Three Cocks | 310 | 8 | 0 | — |
| Talgarth | 1,252 | 28 | 0 | A |
| Hay-on-Wye | 2,065 | 152 | 1 | A+ |
| Brecon | 8,257 | 522 | 6 | A+ |
| Llangynidr | 1,038 | 11 | 0 | A− |
| Builth Wells | 2,620 | 44 | 0 | A |
| Crickhowell | 2,108 | 119 | 2 | A+ |
In brief
Three Cocks in brief
Old houses are part of Three Cocks’s character: 37% of its homes were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. All told, the list holds 8 listed buildings. The rest is about typical: the list grew between 1952 and 1995.
Questions about Three Cocks’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Three Cocks?
Cadw lists 8 buildings inside Three Cocks’s built-up area: 0 Grade I, 2 Grade II* and 6 Grade II.
How old are the homes in Three Cocks?
37% of homes were built before 1919 and 39% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).
Three Cocks has no History Grade.
Listed buildings, scheduled monuments and historic parks and gardens: Cadw, © Crown copyright, via DataMapWales.
Sources: Cadw listed buildings, scheduled monuments and registered historic parks and gardens via DataMapWales, October 2026, inside the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary · Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties by build period (31 March 2025) · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranked against UK towns only. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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