Talfan Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Carmarthenshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 9 March 2001. Cottage.

Talfan Cottage

WRENN ID
sheer-facade-yew
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Carmarthenshire
Constituency
Caerfyrddin MP: Ann Davies (PC)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
9 March 2001
Type
Cottage
Address
Talfan Cottage, Llanddowror, Carmarthen
OS grid reference
SN 254 138
Coordinates
51.79644, -4.53199
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Talfan Cottage is a single-storey building constructed of whitewashed rubble stone, topped with a close-eaved corrugated iron roof. It features two brick chimney stacks, one located on the ridge and the other on the right end wall. The cottage has a double fronted design with a boarded door situated between two 4-pane sash windows. There is a third similar sash window in the left end section, which is beyond the chimney stack, indicating that this part is an addition, as evidenced by a straight joint. The end walls are rendered, while the rear is made of rubble stone.

Local climate

Talfan Cottage sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,250 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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