Green Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 18 January 1996. Tower blocks.
Green Cottages
- WRENN ID
- fossil-remnant-moss
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 18 January 1996
- Type
- Tower blocks
- Address
- Green Cottages, 5 the Green, Glasbury
- OS grid reference
- SO 176 391
- Coordinates
- 52.04436, -3.20238
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Green Cottages is a terrace of buildings located in Glasbury, Powys. Number 5, which is at the southwest end of the terrace, is a later addition from the 19th century. It is constructed of red brick and consists of two bays, with a slate roof that extends slightly beyond the gable stack. The cottage features six-paned sash windows with painted lintels. The central entrance has a four-panelled door set within a glazed lean-to porch, and the gable end is finished with Tyrolean render.
Local climate
Green Cottages sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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