Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Riverside Cottage
St. Fagans, Cardiff, Wales
A Grade II listed building in St Fagans, Cardiff, designated on 6 October 1977.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 6 October 1977
- Locality
- St Fagans
- Town
- Cardiff
- Community
- St. Fagans
- Unitary authority
- Cardiff
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.48521, -3.26990
- Cadw reference
- 13847
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1637 · The fourth table of England. Cornub. Devonia, Somerset etc. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1865 · England and Wales. England No. 6. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 263 Cardiff (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1913 · Sheet 110. Cardiff & Mouth of the Severn. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
One of a group of estate buildings clustered below St Fagans Castle.
History
Late C18 to early to mid C19; the site is identified on the Plymouth Estate map of 1766 as 'gardens and ruins of a house'. This house had a dairy wing added in the early C20 and has been refurbished and added to again in c1980.
Exterior
Local rubblestone walls with a late C20 tile roof; formerly a roof of thatch, brick end stacks. Two storeys. East facing front elevation of two bays and centre door bay and with colourwashed cladding. Casement windows with iron lattices; upper window openings with slightly cambered heads and ground floor window openings with flat heads. Central porch with tile gabled roof and trellised sides; four-panelled door. The gable wall has a window in a cement frame on each floor. One storey rear extension; this is probably early C20 and extends beyond a single storey extension which dates probably from c1980 and has a 3-light window in a segmental head.
Interior
Interior not inspected at resurvey. The previous list description reports that purlins and rafters of thin scantling are visible on first floor, the chimney-breasts remain although the original fireplaces have been blocked, dairy.
Reason for designation
Included as a part of the important group of historic estate buildings at the centre of St. Fagans village.
Nearby in the register
- Garden Wall of No. 1 The TwynNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- No.1 The TwynDomesticunder 1 mi
- No. 2 The TwynDomesticunder 1 mi
- Silver StreamDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.