Violet Cottage and front railings is a Grade II listed building in the Carmarthenshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 26 February 1981. House. 2 related planning applications.
Violet Cottage and front railings
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Constituency
- Caerfyrddin MP: Ann Davies (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 26 February 1981
- Type
- House
- Address
- Violet Cottage and front railings, 13 Broad Street, Llandovery, SA20 0AR
- OS grid reference
- SN 766 343
- Coordinates
- 51.9936, -3.79858
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Violet Cottage is a house that forms part of an informal terrace, featuring three bays and two storeys. It has a slate gabled roof with red brick chimneys on both ends. The deep eaves are supported by narrow brackets. The facade is painted roughcast, with long and short quoins at either end. The windows are horned sashes with marginal glazing, and there are stone steps leading up to the central door, which has four vertical moulded panels and a rectangular overlight, set in a panelled reveal. The doorcase is adorned with panelled piers, large consoles, and a cornice decorated with triglyphs and roundels. The rear of the cottage is stuccoed and features 12-pane sashes on either side, along with a central stair light.
The property is complemented by railings with spearhead finials on a low wall made of squared stone with ashlar coping. There is a matching gate that includes a hooped strengthening bar and cast-iron gatepiers with square bosses at mid-height and octagonal finials. In front of the wall, there is a cobbled pavement, and within the gates, red and black quarry tiles are laid.
To the right, there is a single-storey extension that is now a shop. This extension has a slate gabled roof and features a 20th-century triple sash window and a door with an overlight. The interior of the cottage has not been inspected.
Local climate
Violet Cottage and front railings sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,390 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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