Kemeys Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Monmouthshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 18 November 1980. Terrace house.

Kemeys Cottage

WRENN ID
eastward-barrel-torch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Monmouthshire
Constituency
Monmouthshire MP: Catherine Fookes (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
18 November 1980
Type
Terrace house
Address
Kemeys Cottage, Kemeys Commander, Usk, Llanarth, NP15 1JD
OS grid reference
SO 348 047
Coordinates
51.73747, -2.94495
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Kemeys Cottage is an end cottage in a row, built with roughcast and featuring a slate roof and a small stone stack at the south end. The cottage is two storeys high and has two windows from around 1968 above the eaves, consisting of one triple casement and one paired casement. On the ground floor, there is a similar triple casement window on the left and a 20th-century door to the right of centre, which is set within a 20th-century porch. The upper floor on the right oversails the recessed porch of the adjacent No 2, Templar Cottage. The rear of the cottage was originally a single storey with a gable to the left, which has been built up to two storeys.

Kemeys Cottage underwent alterations in 1968. Inside, there is one room and a passage to the north from the door. A modern staircase at the end of the passage is said to have replaced stairs that were located next to the fireplace at the south end. Before the 1968 alterations, the cottage is said to have had a timber-framed partition. The main room features three beams, one of which is chamfered with a stepped curved stop.

Local climate

Kemeys 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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