Cliff Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Bridgend local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 29 January 1998. Mill. 3 related planning applications.

Cliff Cottage

WRENN ID
standing-groin-plover
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Bridgend
Constituency
Bridgend MP: Chris Elmore (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
29 January 1998
Type
Mill
Address
Cliff Cottage, Laleston, CF32 0HN
OS grid reference
SS 875 798
Coordinates
51.50621, -3.62231
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Cliff Cottage is a building made of stone rubble with some dressed stone details, and it has a pebble-dashed west side. The roof is covered with Welsh slate, and there are pebble-dashed end stacks. The layout includes a house on the left and an attached cottage on the front right, with a rear wing on the left that creates a double pile structure.

The front elevation on the left is two stories high and has three bays, featuring 6/6 pane sash windows with cambered arched voussoirs that were rendered later, along with sills. The ground floor has similar windows on either side of the front doorway, which has a pitched hood that has been remodeled. There was a former segmental arched carriage entrance on the right that has been blocked and replaced with a matching window.

To the right, there is a higher two-bay cottage with full dormers, also featuring 6/6 pane sash windows with timber lintels and stone sills, along with a small 4-pane window under the eaves. The ground floor windows have cambered arched voussoirs, and there is a rough plinth. The side elevation on the right has been remodeled and includes a doorway under a cambered brick arch. The rear of the building has some similar windows and a doorway, and it has been substantially extended in the 20th century.

The property is bordered by a stone wall that features an iron lamp arch and a decorative wrought iron gate at the front. The interior has been converted for community use.

Local climate

Cliff Cottage sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,190 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% 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 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% 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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