Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
NW Boundary Wall To No 83 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
- 51.46279, -3.45136
- Cadw reference
- 13214
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
To west of No 83, beside Eagle Lane.
History
C18 to C19.
Exterior
High wall of stone rubble with rounded rendered coping forms NW boundary wall to Woodstock House property, but also runs on the line of the medieval town wall whose footings are possibly incorporated here.
Reason for designation
A wall which follows line of medieval wall, perhaps incorporating some of its footings.
Nearby in the register
- 1 & 3 WestgateDomesticunder 1 mi
- Woodstock HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- 81 High StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- Ye Olde Mason's Arms PHCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.