2 Grove Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Neath Port Talbot local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 24 February 1975. Former mill, house.
2 Grove Cottages
- WRENN ID
- under-lantern-thistle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Neath Port Talbot
- Constituency
- Aberafan Maesteg MP: Stephen Kinnock (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 24 February 1975
- Type
- Former mill, house
- Address
- 2 Grove Cottages, Margam
- OS grid reference
- SS 798 863
- Coordinates
- 51.56274, -3.73481
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
2 Grove Cottages is part of a two-cottage range, built in the 18th century, facing south with a rear wing at the west end. The cottages are constructed of rubble stone under slate roofs, featuring roughcast gable ends and stone stacks, with a shared stack to the left of center and another at the right end. The building has raised verges and quoins, and the front displays Tudor-style mullioned windows, with three lights on the ground floor and two lights above. No 2 is located to the right, while No 3 is to the left.
The doorway is positioned to the right of center, symmetrically placed between the flanking windows. It features a flat-headed Tudor design with chamfered limestone dressings and a heavy planked door that has a hinge down the center and iron strapwork. There is a small single-storey wing against the east gable end, which has a single light to the front, originally used for hanging bacon. The rear of the building has two gabled half-dormers containing late 20th-century windows under flat stone lintels, with single-light windows below and an additional light offset between.
Inside, there is a straight stair opposite the entrance, with rooms to the left and right. The principal room on the left includes a stone fireplace, possibly from the 17th century, which has a recess for a bakeoven, although the lintel is no longer present. The smaller room to the east has a renewed cast iron fireplace. A door at the rear leads to a galley kitchen. The roof structure dates from the 19th century.
Local climate
2 Grove Cottages sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,220 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 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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