Briardene Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Swansea local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 30 April 1997. Garden structure.

Briardene Cottage

WRENN ID
fallow-threshold-falcon
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Swansea
Constituency
Gower MP: Tonia Antoniazzi (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
30 April 1997
Type
Garden structure
Address
Briardene Cottage, Oxwich, Penrice
OS grid reference
SS 496 866
Coordinates
51.5588, -4.17074
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Briardene Cottage is a two-storey house constructed of rubble and colourwashed, featuring a corrugated roof that replaces the original thatch. It has chimneys at both ends and in the center. The front of the house is asymmetrical, with a doorway on the left side that has two windows above it and a window on each side. On the right side, there is another doorway with a small window above it. There is also a small lean-to on the right.

At the rear, the cottage has three stone buttresses and two deeply-set windows on the first floor, along with three deeply-set windows on the ground floor. Inside, the main room contains a fireplace with a stop-chamfered beam, and above the fireplace, there is framing for a charnel box. To the left of the fireplace, the beginnings of a stone spiral stair can be seen, and there is also a stop-chamfered beam on the ceiling.

Local climate

Briardene 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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