Laurel Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cardiff local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 28 January 1963. Building. 2 related planning applications.
Laurel Cottage
- WRENN ID
- pitched-bailey-sedge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cardiff
- Constituency
- Cardiff West MP: Mr Alex Barros-Curtis (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 28 January 1963
- Type
- Building
- Address
- Laurel Cottage, St Fagans, St. Fagans, CF5 6DU
- OS grid reference
- ST 120 772
- Coordinates
- 51.48776, -3.26829
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Laurel Cottage is a two-storey building with cement rendered cladding and thick stone walls, topped by a slate gabled roof featuring a small brick stack at each end and one stack to the left of center. The main southeast elevation includes a 19th-century colourwashed porch with a slate gabled roof and bargeboard, which was formerly part of No. 2 Laurel Cottages. This elevation also has late 20th-century features, including three transomed casements and a small window on the ground floor, along with six 6 + 6 pane casements on the upper floor. The northwest elevation has a porch towards the northeast end that used to belong to No. 1 Laurel Cottages and also features modern 6 + 6 small paned casements. To the northeast of the main building, there is a 19th-century outbuilding that has been incorporated into the house.
The interior was not inspected during the resurvey, but a previous description noted a large chimney-breast at the northeast end and a stone chamfered doorway with a pointed head in the style of the 16th century.
Local climate
Laurel 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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