Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Mounting Block attached to Nos 25 & 27 High Street
Cowbridge with Llanblethian, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 3 February 1981
- Locality
- Cowbridge
- Community
- Cowbridge with Llanblethian
- Unitary authority
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.46195, -3.44777
- Cadw reference
- 13203
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
About 50m W of Town Hall.
History
Late C18 or early C19.
Exterior
Against the front boundary between Nos 25 and 27, and also partly before No 25 and partly before No 27. A stone mounting block comprising three steps. No 25 is an altered C18 to C19 two storey building. No 27 is a C17 building.
Reason for designation
Rare surviving mounting block. Group value with Nos 25 & 27 High Street.
Nearby in the register
- 27 High StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- Telephone Call-box Outside No 23 High StreetCommunicationsunder 1 mi
- 29 High StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- 31 High StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.