Holly Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Bridgend local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 26 July 1963. Cottage.
Holly Cottage
- WRENN ID
- spare-rubble-larch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bridgend
- Constituency
- Bridgend MP: Chris Elmore (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 26 July 1963
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Holly Cottage, Merthyr Mawr
- OS grid reference
- SS 885 776
- Coordinates
- 51.48634, -3.60707
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Holly Cottage is a two-storey cottage that dates back to the early 18th century. It features an original house facing north with a stair projection on its right side, and an early 19th-century wing to the right that projects behind, creating an L-shape. The cottage is constructed of rubble stone, mostly painted white, with a gabled thatch roof on the original house and a hipped thatch roof on the wing. A central stone ridge stack is a rebuild from the 19th century.
The original house has an early 19th-century doorway located to the left of center in the north wall, positioned under projecting eaves. To the right of the doorway is a two-light fixed-pane window with a moulded surround and a thin hood mould. Further to the right, the wing features a two-light casement window in a similar early 19th-century surround with a hood mould. On the right side wall of the wing, there is a Tudor-headed doorway to the left and an inserted four-light window to the right.
The upper storey includes two two-light mullioned windows with moulded surrounds and hood moulds, which have inserted casements. The left gable end of the main house has a two-light upper-storey casement in a moulded surround. The rear walls of both the wing and the main house have inserted casements.
The original house's plan is partially preserved, featuring a gable end entry, an altered fireplace, and a stone fireplace stair.
Local climate
Holly 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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