No.4 The Terrace and attached garden wall with gate piers is a Grade II listed building in the Caerphilly local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 5 December 1975. Cottage.
No.4 The Terrace and attached garden wall with gate piers
- WRENN ID
- stony-floor-bracken
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Caerphilly
- Constituency
- Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney MP: Nick Smith (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 5 December 1975
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- No.4 The Terrace and attached garden wall with gate piers, Rhymney
- OS grid reference
- SO 111 076
- Coordinates
- 51.76048, -3.28904
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
No. 4 The Terrace is part of a row of seven cottages built in the 19th century. The cottages are constructed from roughcast stone rubble and feature red brick stacks positioned on the ridge, most with four pots. They have shallow pitched roofs made of Welsh slate, accented with terracotta ridge tiles and overhanging boarded eaves. Each cottage is two storeys high, with the central ones (Nos. 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7) being double fronted and having a two-window range with off-centre doorways. Nos. 1 and 9 The Terrace are separately listed and are significantly larger, although No. 9 is attached to the row. Nos. 2 and 8 are of intermediate size, with three and four-window ranges respectively.
Originally, the windows were six-pane sashes set in reveals with narrow sills, and the doors featured moulded stucco surrounds with keystones and narrow overlights. The rear of the cottages has a flatter roof pitch and small-pane windows, most of which have been replaced.
The garden wall extends around the side of No. 2's garden and in front of the terrace, connecting with the garden wall of No. 9. This wall is made of rubble, with end sections that have added tall coping stones, many of which are weathered into unique shapes. Other sections retain the original yellow terracotta saddle-back coping. The gate piers are short, with some featuring tooled quoins and others having flat or rock-faced capstones. The attached iron gates have double uprights below the centre rail. In front of the cottages, there is a pavement bordered by a water channel, which is crossed by metal slab bridges.
The interiors of the cottages are reported to be all different, with many having flying freeholds. No. 4 has replaced small-pane windows and a replaced door.
Local climate
No.4 The Terrace and attached garden wall with gate piers sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,200 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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