Music Department at Atlantic College is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of Glamorgan local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 10 September 1982. Tower house. 5 related planning applications.
Music Department at Atlantic College
- WRENN ID
- empty-rubblework-curlew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Constituency
- Vale of Glamorgan MP: Kanishka Narayan (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 10 September 1982
- Type
- Tower house
- Address
- Music Department at Atlantic College, St Donats Castle, Cowbridge / Y Bont-Faen, St. Donats
- OS grid reference
- SS 935 681
- Coordinates
- 51.40228, -3.53223
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Music Department at Atlantic College is a 19th-century building featuring local lias limestone rubble walls with dressed openings and a Welsh slate roof that has a wavy red tile ridge and a small stone stack located to the south-west of the center. The structure is one storey high with an attic.
The front elevation showcases three wide semi-circular arches made of stone voussoirs, which are fitted with modern glazing. Just below the eaves, there is a small chamfered window. The north-east gable has a blocked square opening and a small glazed semi-circular opening beneath it. On the north-west elevation, which faces the Castle forecourt, there is a 19th-century or later two-light window with a dripstone, a small ventilator slit, a cross-loop ventilator, and a three-light modern window. Both the front and rear elevations feature five late 20th-century hipped roofed two-light dormers.
The coach houses have been converted into plain rehearsal rooms, but the interior has not been seen.
Local climate
Music Department at Atlantic College sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,170 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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- Staff House in north-east corner of the Entrance Forecourt at St Donats Castle
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- Art Department of Atlantic College
- St Donats Arts Centre
- Walls of Entrance Forecourt flanking the Bridge at St Donats Castle
- Wall of Entrance Forecourt at St Donats Castle and part of North-west Boundary Wall
- St Donats Castle (United World College of the (Atlantic), including entrance Bridge
- Churchyard Wall of Church of St Donat, including Railings and Gates
- Cottage against the south-east wall of the Churchyard of the Church of St Donat
- Church of St Donat