Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
The Old Police Station
Llantwit Major, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Civil
- Date of designation
- 10 September 1982
- Locality
- Llantwit Major
- Town
- Cowbridge / Y Bont-Faen
- Community
- Llantwit Major
- Unitary authority
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.40739, -3.48841
- Cadw reference
- 13273
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 80m south-west of the Church of St. Illtud.
History
c1850, it is not shown on the 1840 Tithe map. This building remained the Police Station until the present Llantwit Major one was opened in Wesley Street in 1928.
Exterior
Local limestone walls. Welsh slate hipped roof with stone flanking stacks. Two storeys.
Front elevation of two window bays and centre doorway and faced with coursed dressed stone of near ashlar quality. The openings with stone lintels; string course; stone plinth. On the ground floor, a tall 2-light casement with 4 + 4 panes each side of central 4-panel door with overlight; a sash window with 6 over 6 panes to each side on first floor.
Contemporary centre rear projection with hipped roof, cement rendered cladding which is now removed leaving more roughly finished stonework than on the front. Two sash windows on first floor with cambered heads.
To the north-west in Church Lane there is an adjoining lean-to single storey wing with stone walls, stone stack and slate roof.
Interior
Internal shutters to ground floor windows of front elevation. Interior otherwise not seen at resurvey.
Reason for designation
Included as an unaltered small mid C19 Police Station and for its important group value with the medieval gatehouse, the Chantry House or Cottage and the Parish Church of St Illtud in the view of Hillhead from the east.
Nearby in the register
- The Gatehouse (Porter's Room)Domesticunder 1 mi
- Llantwit Major GatehouseGatehouseunder 1 mi
- Chantry HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- DovecoteDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.