Lower Farm Cottage with attached garden wall is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of Glamorgan local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 30 September 2004. Cottage. 5 related planning applications.

Lower Farm Cottage with attached garden wall

WRENN ID
ragged-garret-thyme
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Vale of Glamorgan
Constituency
Vale of Glamorgan MP: Kanishka Narayan (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
30 September 2004
Type
Cottage
Address
Lower Farm Cottage with attached garden wall, CF62 3EP
OS grid reference
ST 063 665
Coordinates
51.39015, -3.34755
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Lower Farm Cottage, dating from the 18th century, is a single-storey and attic cottage with a thatched roof and a red brick chimney. The main south elevation is rendered and painted over local rubblestone and is visible only from the street. The cottage features two-light wooden casement windows and a boarded door, both set under timber lintels, although specific details are uncertain. The thatched roof is styled in the West Country manner, complete with a decorated ridge and thatch that sweeps over the left-hand dormer.

The rear elevation includes a casement window on either side of a gabled porch, with an eyebrow dormer positioned above the porch against the chimney stack. A low limestone rubble boundary wall extends from the right end of the house, enclosing a large rectangular forecourt and featuring a second pedestrian gateway at the front. The interior details were not available during the resurvey.

Local climate

Lower Farm Cottage with attached garden wall 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 4 transactions since 1998
  • Related listed building consents — 5 applications
  • Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
  • Flood risk assessment
  • Radon risk assessment
  • Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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