Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Woodcocks and W G Davies
Cowbridge with Llanblethian, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 3 February 1981
- Locality
- Cowbridge
- Community
- Cowbridge with Llanblethian
- Unitary authority
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.46187, -3.44850
- Cadw reference
- 13222
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
Immediately to R of Great House.
History
No 36 dated 1832 over archway. The present buildings 38-42 High Street seem to in incorporate within their C18/C19 rebuilding, fragments of medieval structure. In particular, the rear wing of No 38 has substantial remains of a probable warehouse block to a medieval house aligned on the High Street but now lost. See reconstructed drawing in RCAHM Inventory.
Exterior
Three storeys. Four window front elevation with roughcast cladding; slate roof with brick stack to right hand gable end and brick stack between first and second bays from east. On ground floor, from left hand, elliptical carriage archway with keystone dated 1832, modern shopfront with bay window, then second broad shopfront. Sixteen-pane sash windows on first floor; smaller 12-pane sashes on second floor.
Part of rear wing of two storeys, with asbestos cladding to slate gabled roof and with stone rubble walls. In SE wall, small square chamfered window opening to left hand on first floor; ledged door with lintel below; modern window to right hand. Probably originally a free-standing structure.
Interior
Said to have second first floor room with small fireplace with bressumer and flanking early to mid C19 semi-circular arched recesses with reeded frames with impost roundels; six-panelled doors; narrow C19 stair. Rear wing has roof trusses with curved foot principal rafters, and dove nesting boxes in S gable.
Reason for designation
An early C19 building on prominent site in conservation area No 38 with late medieval rear wing. Group value with adjacent listed buildings.
Nearby in the register
- Etcetera and ThreshersCommercialunder 1 mi
- The Great HouseCommercialunder 1 mi
- Former Coach House to rear of Nos 34 & 36Domesticunder 1 mi
- XantippeCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.