Nos 1,2,3 Church Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of Glamorgan local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 2 December 1992. Cottage.

Nos 1,2,3 Church Cottages

WRENN ID
stark-iron-wax
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Vale of Glamorgan
Constituency
Cardiff South and Penarth MP: Stephen Doughty (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
2 December 1992
Type
Cottage
Address
Nos 1,2,3 Church Cottages, Michaelston-Le-Pit, Cardiff, Michaelston-Le-Pit and Leckwith
OS grid reference
ST 151 730
Coordinates
51.44989, -3.2223
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Nos 1, 2, and 3 Church Cottages form a terrace of three cottages designed in the Tudor Revival or cottage orne style. They are constructed from coursed stone rubble with raised brick dressings, featuring a corbelled gable apex. The cottages have a slate roof adorned with decorative cusped and pierced barge-boards at the overhanging eaves, finials, and paired red brick chimney stacks with toothed cornices set diagonally on the ridges. The glazing consists of diamond quarries in metal framed casements with cambered heads.

The layout of the terrace includes a continuous rear range and three parallel cross wings, creating the entrance frontages. The houses are nearly symmetrical, with the entrance front displaying a two-window range for each cottage and an off-centre doorway that has a bracketed gabled hood and a boarded door. Notably, number 2 features only a single window on the first floor.

The garden frontage at the rear differs, with each cottage showcasing paired half dormers that have similar decorative bargeboards above a casement window, forming a continuous row of six. The ground floor features decorative gabled wooden porches flanked by windows on the central house and single windows on the end houses.

Number 2 lacks ridge stacks on the long range, while number 3 does not have gable front paired stacks and includes a side extension. The roof of number 3 is made of artificial slate. The plan includes stairs that rise parallel to the garden frontage between the two wings.

Local climate

Nos 1,2,3 Church Cottages 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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