Former Caretaker's Cottage at former Polytechnic of Wales is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of Glamorgan local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 24 June 1986. Memorial.
Former Caretaker's Cottage at former Polytechnic of Wales
- WRENN ID
- proud-hall-merlin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Constituency
- Vale of Glamorgan MP: Kanishka Narayan (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 24 June 1986
- Type
- Memorial
- Address
- Former Caretaker's Cottage at former Polytechnic of Wales, Barry
- OS grid reference
- ST 112 684
- Coordinates
- 51.40792, -3.27776
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Former Caretaker's Cottage at the former Polytechnic of Wales is a two-storey, three-bay house made of red brick, built between 1913 and 1914. It was designed by the Cardiff architects Teather and Wilson as a lodge for the former Women's Training College. The building features a Queen Anne style on the street side, with an offset rear wing. It has hipped slate roofs and a stone cornice above the brick stack. The façade includes an open pediment, slightly advanced brick pilasters, and outer window bays that are also slightly advanced. The central first-floor window is arched and keyblocked, with a splayed bay below it, and small-pane sash windows. There is a doorway located in the rear angle to the left.
Local climate
Former Caretaker's Cottage at former Polytechnic of Wales sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,090 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 17 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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