6 Merthyr Road is a Grade II listed building in the Cardiff local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 6 October 1977. Cottage.
6 Merthyr Road
- WRENN ID
- heavy-porch-kestrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cardiff
- Constituency
- Cardiff North MP: Anna McMorrin (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 6 October 1977
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 6 Merthyr Road, Tongwynlais
- OS grid reference
- ST 132 822
- Coordinates
- 51.53238, -3.25231
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
6 Merthyr Road is part of a two-storey terrace of 10 cottages, numbered 4 to 22, that open directly onto the pavement. The cottages are constructed from narrow coursed rubble, featuring stone voussoirs above door and window openings, with regular dressed stone quoins and rendered sides. They have a Welsh slate roof with narrow red brick ridge corniced stacks, each topped with three pots.
All units, except for number 14, have a single window range and a door on the front elevation, with a ground floor layout consisting of two rooms arranged one behind the other. Number 14 has a three-window range and a central door, with a central staircase layout. The original small-pane sash windows have mostly been replaced with two-light casements on the first floor and transomed casements on the ground floor, some featuring rendered surrounds and slightly cambered heads, along with replaced doors. The cottages are set behind a low masonry revetment that slopes down to the right.
Originally, staircases rose beside the front room fireplace in most cottages, except for the central staircase in number 14, with some staircases still retained. There are some stone flagged floors and slabs from former pantries, and the ground floor ceiling joists are of thin scantling, with some exposed.
Local climate
6 Merthyr Road 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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