Morris Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 November 1990. Hall. 1 related planning application.

Morris Cottages

WRENN ID
lone-parapet-aspen
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Powys
Constituency
Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr MP: Steve Witherden (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
19 November 1990
Type
Hall
Address
Morris Cottages, 33 Heol-Y-Doll, Machynlleth, SY20 8BH
OS grid reference
SH 744 011
Coordinates
52.5935, -3.85455
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Morris Cottages is a group of ten two-storey cottages arranged in reflected pairs, featuring a central tunnel passage. The cottages have colourwashed rubble front walls and slate roofs, with some roofs renewed and others grouted. The chimney stacks are made of rubble and have weathercourses, with some rendered. Most of the windows are horned sash windows, with only one small pane window on the first floor of No 15. The other windows lack glazing bars, except for No 23, which has four-pane sashes. No 23 also includes a later small pane casement over the passage, while Nos 19 and 21 have modern windows. The ground floor windows have cambered voussoirs, and only No 15 retains a boarded door; the other doors are half-glazed, with No 21 featuring a modern recessed door as a later alteration. The left end of the cottages is scribed rendered, while the right end is rubble, and the rear is colourwashed rubble with mostly modern windows, some lean-tos, and a modern cross range to the left. The passage is slate flagged and has whitewashed rubble walls. The pairs of cottages, Nos 19 and 21, and 25 and 27, have been combined into single properties.

Local climate

Morris Cottages sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,320 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2001
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
  • Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
  • Flood risk assessment
  • Radon risk assessment
  • Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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