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

Morris Cottages

WRENN ID
seventh-loft-sunrise
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Powys
Constituency
Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr MP: Steve Witherden (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
19 November 1990
Type
Cottages
Address
Morris Cottages, 31 Heol-Y-Doll, Machynlleth, SY20 8BH
OS grid reference
SH 744 011
Coordinates
52.59345, -3.85454
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Morris Cottages is a row 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 being renewed and others grouted. The chimney stacks are made of rubble with weathercourses, and some are rendered. Most of the cottages have horned sash windows, with only one small pane window on the first floor of No 15. The other windows generally do not have glazing bars, except for No 23, which has four-pane sashes. No 23 also features a later small pane casement window above 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 others have half-glazed doors, with No 21 having a modern recessed door as a later alteration. The left end of the row is scribed rendered, 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. Notably, the pairs of cottages at Nos 19 and 21, as well as Nos 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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