Garden Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 18 January 2002. Cottage.

Garden Cottage

WRENN ID
winding-groin-oak
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Brecon Beacons National Park
Constituency
Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
18 January 2002
Type
Cottage
Address
Garden Cottage, Penpont, Trallong, Powys
OS grid reference
SN 970 290
Coordinates
51.95039, -3.49924
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Garden Cottage is a two-storey building constructed from painted rubble stone, topped with a slate monopitch roof that leans against a walled garden wall. It features a triple brick chimney at the top of the roof slope. The cottage has two bays, with two 9-pane hopper windows located under the eaves on the upper floor. On the ground floor, there is a cambered-headed window on the right and a door on the left, which is part of a 20th-century long lean-to.

To the left, there is a short return block of similar height, followed by a lower single-storey range that includes a broad cambered-headed doorway with a boarded door. The rear side of the cottage is unpainted; the taller part on the left has two windows at the eaves, with the right window being longer and featuring 20th-century glazing. Below the left window is a cambered-headed door. The slightly lower block, which serves as a cart-shed, has three broad arches with elliptical heads, and there is a small window immediately above the left arch.

The rear of the cottage, which faces into the kitchen garden, has two cambered-headed windows above, with one on the ground floor to the right and a modern window to the left. There is also another modern window as the wall slopes to the upper right.

Local climate

Garden Cottage sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,240 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 83% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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