Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Rose Cottage, including forecourt garden walls
Cowbridge with Llanblethian, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Cowbridge, Cowbridge with Llanblethian, Vale of Glamorgan, designated on 3 February 1981.
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
- 51.46120, -3.45064
- Cadw reference
- 13232
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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)
Cadw's description
Location
Adjacent (to W) of Town Gate.
History
Probably early C19.
Exterior
Two storey cottage built against the line of, or incorporating, the structure of the medieval town wall which extends as far as the South Gate which Rose Cottage adjoins. Rose Cottage has colourwashed stone rubble walls; slate gabled roof with stone stack at each end, smaller to left hand. Front elevation of two bays and centre doorway with two-light casement windows, the left hand first floor one set lower and with two taller windows on ground floor. Colourwashed brick gabled porch in centre with modern half-glazed door and modern glazed door to rear. Inside, right hand ground floor room with narrow chamfered beam with stops.
Stone rubble garden wall to front; to R turning at corner and extending as far N as Medieval S gate of tow; to L higher with rounded rubble coping. Gateway with iron gate opposite door of Rose Cottage; gate has slender iron uprights with scroll finials rising alternately above top and middle rails.
Reason for designation
Late C18/early C19 cottage on line of town walls and adjacent to medieval town gate. Group value with adjacent listed structures.
Nearby in the register
- South Gate (Porth y Felin)Domesticunder 1 mi
- South GateGatehouseunder 1 mi
- SE Wall To former Grammar School GardenEducationunder 1 mi
- The Boot House at Grammar SchoolEducationunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.