East Garden House of Pwll-y-wrach is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of Glamorgan local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 23 July 2003. Garden house.

East Garden House of Pwll-y-wrach

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Vale of Glamorgan
Constituency
Vale of Glamorgan MP: Kanishka Narayan (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
23 July 2003
Type
Garden house
Address
East Garden House of Pwll-y-wrach, Colwinston, Cowbridge / Y Bont-Faen
OS grid reference
SS 953 754
Coordinates
51.46809, -3.50814
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The East Garden House of Pwll-y-wrach is a single-storey, square building dating from the 18th century. It features smooth rendered walls with a stone window surround and a Welsh slate roof. The south wall is notable for its keyed Palladian window, which has three-pane sidelights flanking a four-over-four pane sash window. The building has a pyramid roof topped with a stone finial. The interior was not available for resurvey, but it consists of only one room. The doorway and rear elevation were not seen.

Local climate

East Garden House of Pwll-y-wrach 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 94% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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