Tanyard Cottage in American Gardens is a Grade II listed building in the Torfaen local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 29 May 1997. Estate cottage.
Tanyard Cottage in American Gardens
- WRENN ID
- vacant-flint-dock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torfaen
- Constituency
- Torfaen MP: Nick Thomas-Symonds (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 29 May 1997
- Type
- Estate cottage
- Address
- Tanyard Cottage in American Gardens, Pontypool Park, Pontypool, Trevethin
- OS grid reference
- SO 290 020
- Coordinates
- 51.71268, -3.02889
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Tanyard Cottage is a small estate cottage located in Pontypool Park. It is constructed of rough rubble stone that has been whitewashed, topped with a Welsh slate roof. The building is two storeys high and features two windows with a central entrance, creating a basic four-room layout with a central hall and staircase. The entrance includes a plank door and a small porch made of red brick, which has a gable tiled roof. The windows are 12 over 12 small paned sashes with drip moulds above. The roof is plain, with a deep eaves overhang at both the gables and the front of the cottage. There is a central brick chimney stack. The interior was not seen during the resurvey in October 1996.
Local climate
Tanyard Cottage in American Gardens receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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