Heath House

Cowbridge with Llanblethian, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales

A Grade II listed building in Cowbridge, Cowbridge with Llanblethian, Vale of Glamorgan, designated on 5 December 1963.

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1913) covering the location of Heath House, Cowbridge with Llanblethian, Vale of Glamorgan, with a pin at the register's coordinates — Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1913), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Designation: Listed building, Grade II
Broad class: Domestic
Date of designation: 5 December 1963
Locality: Cowbridge
Community: Cowbridge with Llanblethian
Unitary authority: Vale of Glamorgan
Country: Wales
Coordinates: 51.46072, -3.44475
Cadw reference: 13195

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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)
1897 · 262 Pontypridd (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1897 · 262 Pontypridd (Outline) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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Cadw's description

Location

About 100m SE of junction with The Limes.

History

C18 frontage to possibly earlier core.

Exterior

Front elevation four asymmetrically spaced bays wide with roughcast cladding and long and short quoins; centre doorway; slate roof with stone stacks, one at each end, with large panelled stack common with no 56 and with further stack to right hand of centre. Twelve-pane sash windows with horns; doorway to R of centre set back in open wooden boarded pediment on pilasters, stuccoed reveals, blocked fanlight with radiating and scalloped tracery, reeded band and six fielded panelled door.

Front garden enclosed by dwarf stone wall with railings missing.

Reason for designation

Well-preserved C18 house with group value with adjacent listed buildings.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Designated Historic Asset GIS Data, The Welsh Historic Environment Service (Cadw), 2026-09-07, licensed under the Open Government Licence http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/ Cadw, the Welsh Historic Environment Service · Open Government Licence v3.0

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