Xantippe is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of Glamorgan local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 3 February 1981. House.
Xantippe
- WRENN ID
- tired-basalt-thrush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Constituency
- Vale of Glamorgan MP: Kanishka Narayan (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 3 February 1981
- Type
- House
- Address
- Xantippe, 39 High Street, Cowbridge, Cowbridge with Llanblethian
- OS grid reference
- SS 994 746
- Coordinates
- 51.46211, -3.44843
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Xantippe is a three-storey building with a two-window gabled facade, covered in stucco. It features a cornice and end pilasters. On the second and first floors, there are two 12-pane sash windows set within architraves. The ground floor has a shopfront with a central doorway flanked by display windows, all beneath a classicising fascia board.
Inside, at the rear of the ground floor shop, there is a plastered ceiling divided into panels by partly stopped and moulded wooden beams, likely from the 17th century, arranged two panels wide and three deep. Similar moulded beams can be found in the front room on the first floor. The rear first floor room contains a possibly early 17th-century hooded fireplace on the southeast wall and two heavy chamfered beams. Additionally, there is a six reeded panel door, and the rear northwest wing also features massive beams.
Local climate
Xantippe sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,150 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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