Mount Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Torfaen local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 7 June 2011. Cottage.
Mount Cottage
- WRENN ID
- upper-gateway-fern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torfaen
- Constituency
- Torfaen MP: Nick Thomas-Symonds (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 7 June 2011
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Mount Cottage, Pontymoile
- OS grid reference
- SO 288 002
- Coordinates
- 51.69674, -3.03022
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Mount Cottage is a cottage that dates back to an unspecified period, featuring a whitewashed rendered front that likely covers stone rubble. The roof is made of stone tiles arranged in diminishing courses. The building has two bays and is one and a half storeys high, with a gable on the right side, a projecting gabled stair, and a catslide roof extension at the rear. A later two-storey extension has been added to the left, with the remains of a left gable stack visible within the adjoining roofslope. The front features later horned plate glass sash windows in altered openings, casement dormers on the first floor, and various small windows and rooflights at the rear. The front elevation includes a door to the left and two windows to the right, along with a further small window to the right. There is an additional door to the later extension located in a covered passage to the left.
Originally, the cottage had a two-bay plan that was extended on the ground floor with the later addition on the left. The former left bay now serves as an entrance hall but contains what is likely the remains of a large gable stack, which has been converted into a cupboard connected to the kitchen in the later wing. On the southwest side, a stair, now blocked, rises to the first floor of the later wing. To the right of the entrance hall is a single room featuring a large gable fireplace with a recess to the right and a stair to the left. A single floor joist is visible within this room. The first floor is accessed by a single turn gable stair and is divided into two rooms; the main room has two bays with a visible truss, and there is a further partition and truss leading to a smaller room beyond. There may have been a former door through the gable within the smaller room that connected to the first floor of the later wing.
Local climate
Mount Cottage 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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