Park Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Bridgend local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 9 November 1998. Cottage. 1 related planning application.

Park Cottage

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Bridgend
Constituency
Bridgend MP: Chris Elmore (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
9 November 1998
Type
Cottage
Address
Park Cottage, 26 Derllwyn Road, Tondu, Ynysawdre, CF32 9HD
OS grid reference
SS 889 845
Coordinates
51.54891, -3.60246
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Park Cottage is a small cottage built from ironstone rubble, featuring stone and brick dressings. It has a Welsh slate roof with blue brick ridge tiles and yellow brick stacks on the left and right. The cottage is two storeys high and is attached to number 27 at the rear. There is also a single storey lean-to wing added to the right. Originally, it was a two up/two down cottage with a central door, but the doorway and right window have since switched places.

On the first floor, there are two small 3/3 pane casement windows with segmental arched heads, supported by stone springers and keystones, and surrounded by brick, positioned directly under the eaves. The ground floor windows are similar in style but consist of 3/3 pane horned sashes. The half hipped single storey wing on the right side is mostly made of yellow brick and features three 3/3 horned sash windows under segmental brick arches, along with a similar doorway on the side.

Outside, there is a separate wash-house and coal shed, which is square in shape and constructed of red brick with a pyramidal slate roof. The interior of the cottage was likely remodeled when the side wing was built in the later 19th century. It now includes a staircase against the rear wall that leads to the first floor rooms, which have boarded doors, window seats, and partially exposed staggered purlins.

Local climate

Park 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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