Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
13481
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
02/12/1992
Date of Amendment
25/04/2002
Name of Property
Nos 1,2,3 Church Cottages
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Vale of Glamorgan
Community
Michaelston-le-Pit and Leckwith
Town
Cardiff
Locality
Michaelston-le-Pit
Easting
315167
Northing
173033
Street Side
Location
On the opposite side of the road and to the N of the church.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Early - mid C19. Row of cottages shown in this position on tithe map of 1845. Shown on First Edition OS map surveyed 1878-9. Possibly associated with the Cwrt-yr-Ala estate.
Exterior
Terrace of 3 cottages in Tudor Revival/cottage orne style. Built of coursed stone rubble with raised brick dressings including a corbelled gable apex; slate roof with decorative cusped and pierced barge-boards to overhanging eaves, finials and paired red brick chimney stacks with toothed cornices set diagonally on the ridges. Glazing is of diamond quarries in metal framed casements with cambered heads. Plan of the terrace is a continuous rear range and 3 parallel cross wings creating the entrance frontages. The houses are almost but not quite symmetrical. Entrance frontage has a 2-window range to each and an off-centre doorway with bracketed gabled hood and boarded door; single window only to first floor of number 2. Garden frontage to rear is different; each cottage has paired half dormers with similar decorative bargeboards, over a casement window, making a continuous row of 6; ground floor has decorative gabled wooden porches, flanked by windows to central house, single windows to end houses.
Number 2 has no ridge stacks to the long range.
Number 3 has no gable front paired stacks and has a side extension. Artificial slate roof.
Interior
Plan of stairs parallel with garden frontage rising between the two wings.
Reason for designation
Listed as a well-preserved group of Tudor Revival cottages in the centre of the village. Group value with the church, lychgate and telephone box.
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