Merlin Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Monmouthshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 1 April 1974. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Merlin Cottage
- WRENN ID
- knotted-grate-larch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Monmouthshire
- Constituency
- Monmouthshire MP: Catherine Fookes (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 1 April 1974
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Merlin Cottage, 12 New Market Street, Usk, NP15 1AT
- OS grid reference
- SO 375 006
- Coordinates
- 51.70147, -2.90576
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
These are a pair of cottages with frontages dating from the Georgian period. The cottages are finished with roughcast render, painted at No. 14 and unpainted at No. 12. They have a slate roof with ridge and end stacks, two of which are roughcast and one of brick. The cottages are two storeys high.
No. 14 has a two-window arrangement on the first floor, featuring 12-pane sash windows set in reveals. The ground floor has a similar low-set window to the right and a shallow, multi-pane canted bay window to the left. A central doorway is sheltered by a hood supported by decorative cast-iron brackets, and has a 20th-century glazed door. There is a shallow plinth at the base.
No. 12 shares a similar frontage to No. 14, but retains a six-panel door with glazed upper lights. It also has an additional bay at the end, defined by a pilaster strip. This end bay contains one similar upper window and one small ground floor casement window.
Local climate
Merlin Cottage 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 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2014
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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