Model Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Monmouthshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 March 2001. Cottage.

Model Cottage

WRENN ID
gilded-lintel-claret
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Monmouthshire
Constituency
Monmouthshire MP: Catherine Fookes (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
19 March 2001
Type
Cottage
Address
Model Cottage, Hendre, Monmouth, Whitecastle
OS grid reference
SO 460 146
Coordinates
51.8277, -2.78364
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Model Cottage is a mid- to late-19th century, L-plan, 1½-storey cottage constructed from coursed sandstone rubble with red tiled roofs. The main range consists of two units positioned at right angles to the road, with a single-unit wing set back on the east side. The front gable wall of the main range features a chamfered drip-band over the ground floor, which is terminated at the left end but continues around the right side. There is a shallow rectangular 5-light oriel window at the ground floor with a monopitched roof, along with a 5-light casement window on the upper floor and trefoil-pierced barge-boarding.

On the left side, there is a square side-wall chimney and a 2-light casement window on each floor located behind the chimney. The right side has a gabled half-dormer with a 1-light window. The roof of the side wing slopes down in a catslide manner, creating a continuous canopy that shelters a doorway near the junction, which has been moved from its original position in the left wall. This doorway features a board door with ornamental strap hinges. A tall side-wall chimneystack rises through the catslide roof.

Local climate

Model Cottage receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% 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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