Y Bwthyn is a Grade II listed building in the Swansea local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 4 April 1975. Cottage.
Y Bwthyn
- WRENN ID
- first-glass-gilt
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swansea
- Constituency
- Gower MP: Tonia Antoniazzi (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 4 April 1975
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Y Bwthyn, 24 Caecerrig Road, Pontarddulais, Pontardulais
- OS grid reference
- SN 595 038
- Coordinates
- 51.7155, -4.03481
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Y Bwthyn is a single-storey and attic 18th-century cottage, oriented roughly east-west, which was formerly two cottages. The building is constructed of rubble stone and covered in roughcast render, topped with a traditional Welsh thatched roof. The northern range is taller, featuring higher eaves and ridges, along with a large roughcast chimney stack at the southern end.
The west-facing front has a modern gabled porch at the center, which was heightened in 2002. On either side of the porch are small 8-pane horned timber sash windows with stone sills and plain reveals. The southern gable end includes a small attic light with a timber lintel. The lower southern range is slightly recessed and has a single horned sash window on the west front, also with a stone sill. There is a painted roughcast chimney stack at the southern end.
Modern ground floor projections have been added to the east behind both ranges, along with small modern extensions at the northern and southern ends. The southern extension is nearly full-height and features a Welsh slate gabled roof with a painted timber barge-board.
The building has not been inspected.
Local climate
Y Bwthyn sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,420 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 98% 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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- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2000
- No related consent applications matched
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