Duke of Wellington PH including Rear Wing to Church Street is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of Glamorgan local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 3 February 1981. Public house. 2 related planning applications.
Duke of Wellington PH including Rear Wing to Church Street
- WRENN ID
- western-pediment-cobweb
- 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
- Public house
- Address
- Duke of Wellington PH including Rear Wing to Church Street, 48 High Street, Cowbridge, Cowbridge with Llanblethian
- OS grid reference
- SS 994 746
- Coordinates
- 51.46188, -3.44932
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Duke of Wellington Public House, which includes a rear wing facing Church Street, is a two-storey building dating from the 19th century. It features a stuccoed front elevation and a slate roof, with a tall stone chimney stack on the left side and a small stuccoed stack on the right end of the front pitch. The irregular facade is evident in old photographs and 19th-century drawings.
On the ground floor, starting from the left, there is a projecting canted bay window with a slated roof that extends over a whitewashed stone rubble wall and a ledged door. To the right of this bay window is another canted bay window with three sash windows that include glazing bars and horns. On the first floor, from the left, there is a 16-pane sash window, a large canted bay window with sash lights, and two additional 16-pane sash windows to the right. The side gable features a 20th-century round-arched stained glass window.
To the southwest, there are rear wings that are built at right angles. The ground floor is made of stone, while the upper floors are constructed of brick, culminating in a three-storey gable that is entirely stone. This section includes a three-window block with a hipped roof, a two-storey section, and a three-storey gabled block, along with a broad two-storey gabled block that features an oriel window.
Internally, on the first floor, there is a 16th to 17th-century hooded stone fireplace set on 19th-century jambs against the southeast wall. There is also a fireplace with a stopped and chamfered bressumer featuring an ogee centre against the southwest wall, located to the southeast of a straight joint that may indicate a first-floor entry. Corbelling to the chimney and the original rear stone wall are visible from the rear ground floor bar.
Local climate
Duke of Wellington PH including Rear Wing to Church Street 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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