The Cottage with attached garden walls is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of Glamorgan local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 10 September 1982. Church. 4 related planning applications.

The Cottage with attached garden walls

WRENN ID
gentle-newel-wind
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Vale of Glamorgan
Constituency
Vale of Glamorgan MP: Kanishka Narayan (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
10 September 1982
Type
Church
OS grid reference
SS 967 684
Coordinates
51.4053, -3.4858
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Cottage, dating from the 18th century, features roughly coursed local limestone rubble walls and a gable roof covered with Welsh slates. It has two storeys and a three-unit single-depth plan, with a projecting rear wing. The front elevation, viewed from the south-west, includes a modern window in what is likely an old opening below, with another window on the first floor to the right. There is a front cross-passage doorway with a flat arched head and a modern door, although the original doorway is located at the rear of the cross-passage. Additional features include a modern window with a head at eaves level, two modern ground floor windows, another modern window at eaves level, and a high blocked stone doorway with an arched head and voussoirs, opposite a similar doorway in the rear wall. All windows are currently 3 x 4 pane plastic units as of July 2003.

The front garden, which was part of the former south-west subdivision, is enclosed by stone rubble walls on the north-east and south-east sides, with a wide entrance gap in the south-east wall featuring rendered gate piers.

The interior was not inspected during the resurvey, but the existing description notes a south-west ground floor room with stopped and chamfered end and centre beams, and a stone fireplace against the cross-passage with chamfered jamb and wooden bressumer. There is a door leading from the cross-passage to the south-west room with pyramidal stops, and a chamfered doorway at the north-west end of the cross-passage. At the north-east end, there is a blocked stone segmental arch, approximately nine feet high, in both the front and rear walls. The roof has been replaced at some point in the building's history.

Local climate

The Cottage with attached garden walls 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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