The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of Glamorgan local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 30 April 2004. House.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
- half-mullion-honey
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Constituency
- Vale of Glamorgan MP: Kanishka Narayan (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 30 April 2004
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Cottage, Llansannor, Cowbridge, Penllyn
- OS grid reference
- SS 993 775
- Coordinates
- 51.48788, -3.45112
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Cottage is a two-storey building constructed from local limestone random rubble, featuring remnants of lime render and a Welsh slate roof. It has a single depth layout with a rear outshut and consists of five bays with unevenly spaced windows. On the left side, two windows are set widely apart, featuring 6 over 6 pane sashes with elliptical heads. The second bay includes a gabled porch. To the right, three windows are closely grouped together, heavily covered in wisteria, with 3 over 3 pane sashes on the upper floor. The roof has a moderate pitch and is topped with stone gable stacks. The rear elevation shows some alterations. The interior was not inspected during the resurvey.
Local climate
The Cottage 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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