Water-tank shelter in garden at New Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Monmouthshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 10 October 2000. Water tank shelter.
Water-tank shelter in garden at New Cottage
- WRENN ID
- small-stair-quill
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Monmouthshire
- Constituency
- Monmouthshire MP: Catherine Fookes (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 10 October 2000
- Type
- Water tank shelter
- Address
- Water-tank shelter in garden at New Cottage, Mathern, Chepstow
- OS grid reference
- ST 520 914
- Coordinates
- 51.62005, -2.69371
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The water-tank shelter in the garden at New Cottage is a hexagonal structure featuring a sandstone dwarf wall with dressed coping. The wall supports six posts with curved braces, which hold up a bell-cast roof made of red tiles topped with a lead spike finial.
Local climate
Water-tank shelter in garden at New Cottage receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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