Sunny Bank, with attached garden wall is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of Glamorgan local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 16 December 2004. Cottage.

Sunny Bank, with attached garden wall

WRENN ID
woven-footing-gold
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Vale of Glamorgan
Constituency
Vale of Glamorgan MP: Kanishka Narayan (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
16 December 2004
Type
Cottage
OS grid reference
SS 967 690
Coordinates
51.41133, -3.4863
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Sunny Bank is a two-storey cottage, likely dating from the 18th century, featuring a pebbledash front with cement window dressings, presumably over local rubblestone. The gable and rear walls are rendered and painted, topped with a Welsh slate roof and stone rubble chimneys. The cottage has a gable end facing the road and includes two windows on the front, with a central doorway that has a late 20th-century gabled timber porch. The windows are small 6 over 6 pane 2-light casements, and the roof is plain with gable stacks. At the rear, there is a small single-storey kitchen extension with a flat roof and two modern top-hung lights on the upper floor.

To the right of the main elevation, there is a small attached outhouse, likely built at the same time as the cottage, which serves as a wood store and privy. The front garden is enclosed by a limestone rubble wall approximately 1.2 meters high, while another wall separates the rear yard from the road and is connected to the rear outhouse.

The interior was not seen during the resurvey, but it is expected to have a direct entry and very small rooms, as it remains single depth.

Local climate

Sunny Bank, with attached garden wall sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,170 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% 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 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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