Riverside Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cardiff local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 6 October 1977. A 20th century Cottage.
Riverside Cottage
- WRENN ID
- sacred-wicket-thunder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cardiff
- Constituency
- Cardiff West MP: Mr Alex Barros-Curtis (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 6 October 1977
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Riverside Cottage, St Fagans, St. Fagans, CF5 6DU
- OS grid reference
- ST 119 770
- Coordinates
- 51.48521, -3.26991
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Riverside Cottage is a two-storey building with local rubblestone walls and a late 20th-century tile roof, which replaced an earlier thatched roof. The east-facing front has two bays and a central door bay, featuring colourwashed cladding. It has casement windows with iron lattices; the upper window openings have slightly cambered heads, while the ground floor window openings have flat heads. There is a central porch with a tile gabled roof and trellised sides, leading to a four-panelled door. The gable wall includes a window in a cement frame on each floor.
At the rear, there is a one-storey extension, likely built in the early 20th century, which extends beyond a single-storey extension that probably dates from around 1980 and features a three-light window with a segmental head. The interior was not inspected during the resurvey, but a previous description notes visible purlins and rafters of thin scantling on the first floor, along with chimney-breasts that remain despite the original fireplaces being blocked, and a dairy.
Local climate
Riverside Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,110 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2006
- No related consent applications matched
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