Church Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Bridgend local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 26 July 1963. Cottage.

Church Cottage

WRENN ID
hallowed-soffit-saffron
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Bridgend
Constituency
Bridgend MP: Chris Elmore (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
26 July 1963
Type
Cottage
Address
Church Cottage, Merthyr Mawr
OS grid reference
SS 883 775
Coordinates
51.48552, -3.60886
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Church Cottage is a two-storey cottage built in the early 19th century. It features a three-window main range with a wing set back to the left. The exterior is constructed of rubble stone with traces of limewash and has a thatched roof, with stone stacks on the right side and at the left end of the wing.

The doorway on the left side of the main range was inserted in the early 19th century and has a re-used Tudor head, with a renewed stop-chamfer surround and a boarded door. To the right of the doorway, there are early 19th-century two-light mullioned windows that include casements and have hood moulds; notably, the window to the right was originally a doorway. In the upper storey, there are early 19th-century windows, with one-light windows on the left and right, and a two-light window in the centre, all featuring renewed stone surrounds beneath the eaves.

The two-window wing has windows with renewed stone surrounds and hood moulds on the lower storey, and a similar window on the upper left. At the rear, there is an added lean-to, and to the right of this, the main range has a doorway with a Tudor-headed overlight and a casement window above to the right. The wing is slightly set back and includes a small stair-light with a two-centred head and a casement window on the upper left.

Inside, the fireplace in the main range dates to the early 19th century and features a Tudor head and a stone mantel supported by moulded corbels. To the left of the fireplace is a 17th-century turning stone stair. An early 19th-century Tudor-headed doorway leads to the wing, which contains a second turning stone stair in the rear wall.

Local climate

Church 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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