Pit Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Monmouthshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 27 January 2006. Cottage.
Pit Cottages
- WRENN ID
- seventh-soffit-raven
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Monmouthshire
- Constituency
- Monmouthshire MP: Catherine Fookes (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 27 January 2006
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Pit Cottages, Llanarth
- OS grid reference
- SO 373 096
- Coordinates
- 51.78204, -2.90967
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Pit Cottages is a pair of cottages built in a simple picturesque style. They feature random rubble construction with an informal mix of colors, rusticated quoins, and Welsh slate roofs. The cottages have a rebuilt axial brick chimney stack and decorated barge-boards on the front and side gables.
The design is symmetrical, with advanced gables at the center and porches located at the angles of the gables and the main range on either side. Both porches have hipped roofs covered in stone tiles and are timber boarded, with vertical boarding on the left (No. 1) and horizontal boarding on the right (No. 2). Above each porch, there are small windows.
The central gables feature canted bay windows with stone tiled roofs on the ground floor, and above them are 2-light casement windows with steep arched heads that include voussoirs. All windows have transoms and margin-lights, which create a distinctive decorative effect. Similar windows with voussoirs can be found in the arched heads of the gable ends. The rear of the cottages has simpler detailing and includes later additions.
Local climate
Pit Cottages receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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