Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
6 & 7 Church Street
Cowbridge with Llanblethian, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 20 November 1974
- Town
- Cowbridge
- Community
- Cowbridge with Llanblethian
- Unitary authority
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.46172, -3.44985
- Cadw reference
- 13182
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Opposite entrance to churchyard.
History
A two-unit house of C16 date how divided into two cottages. The windows and R doorway are later. The building originally had an unheated outer room (perhaps a workshop), but the upper floor was part of dwelling area. See reconstructed elevation in RCAHM Inventory.
Exterior
Stone rubble walls with quoins to right hand and straight joint to left hand where an almshouse row once continued southwards. Slate gabled roof with pebbledash stack to left hand and modern brick stack to centre. Four window front elevation. The two-light stone mullioned and leaded casements with dripstones are replacements, with four above and one in each end bay below. In inner ground floor bays, wide four-centred chamfered doorways with ashlar dressings, the doorway in No 7 probably original but the doorway in No 6 a replacement.
Interior
Internal details include good main ground floor beams, a dressed stone arched doorway in both houses at head of original staircase now in no 7 and hooded fireplace on first floor in no 7.
Reason for designation
House retaining much C16 character opposite historic parish church. Group value with adjacent listed buildings.
Nearby in the register
- Gate Piers & End Piers, Walls, Railings & Gates at W Entrance to ChurchyardReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Duke of Wellington PH including Rear Wing to Church StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- 50 High StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- 52 High StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.