Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
31 High Street
Cowbridge with Llanblethian, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 16 September 1999
- Locality
- Cowbridge
- Community
- Cowbridge with Llanblethian
- Unitary authority
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.46203, -3.44797
- Cadw reference
- 22312
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
Probable C17 origins; renovated in C20.
Exterior
Gable end faces street. Two storeys. Rendered with exposed stone chimney at gable apex. First floor has two 12-pane horned sash windows. On ground floor, modern shop front.
Reason for designation
Building retaining some C17 character, whose gable facing street reflects burgess plots of ancient Cowbridge. Group value with adjacent listed buildings in High Street.
Nearby in the register
- 29 High StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- Lloyds BankCommercialunder 1 mi
- 27 High StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- Mounting Block attached to Nos 25 & 27 High StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.