Margaret's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Swansea local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 17 December 1992. Cottage. 9 related planning applications.
Margaret's Cottage
- WRENN ID
- turning-steeple-poplar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swansea
- Constituency
- Gower MP: Tonia Antoniazzi (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 17 December 1992
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Margaret's Cottage, Oxwich, Penrice, SA3 1LS
- OS grid reference
- SS 497 866
- Coordinates
- 51.55848, -4.16892
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Margaret’s Cottage is a two-storey, two-window cottage dating from an unknown period. It is constructed of whitewashed rubble with a straw-thatched roof featuring 'eyebrows' over the front. The windows are four-pane casements, with one above and one below each window opening. A low, boarded door, 1.7 metres high and incorporating a flood board, is centrally located. Some original cobbled paving remains. A projecting chimney breast, slated at the front, is situated at the left end. A corrugated-iron roofed garage extension extends beyond, formerly an outhouse with a gable chimney, now truncated. A later lean-to has been added to the right, incorporating a steel-frame window and a further door. According to local accounts, a camber-headed, half-glazed door is located centrally at the rear.
Local climate
Margaret's Cottage sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,500 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 4 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 7 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 9 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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