Ye Olde Mason's Arms PH is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of Glamorgan local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 3 February 1981. Public house. 13 related planning applications.
Ye Olde Mason's Arms PH
- WRENN ID
- lone-lime-snow
- 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
- Ye Olde Mason's Arms PH, 66 High Street, Cowbridge, Cowbridge with Llanblethian, CF71 7AH
- OS grid reference
- SS 992 747
- Coordinates
- 51.46248, -3.45151
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Ye Olde Mason's Arms Public House is a two-storey building with stone rubble walls. The front elevation features stucco cladding on the ground floor and roughcast cladding with applied timber framing on the upper floor. It has slate roofs, with the main wing having a gabled roof and a central stone stack, while the projecting wing has a hip roof. The hall wing likely had an open roof originally, but now includes a storeyed cross-passage and outer rooms. The base of a medieval window remains in the south wall.
The front elevation of the hall wing has two bays. On the left side of the ground floor, there is a square bay window of early origin with a moulded stone frame, which previously had stone mullions but now features inset windows with small panes. Next to it on the northwest, there is a pointed medieval window with two trefoiled lights. To the right, there is a modern half-glazed porch. The first floor has two sash windows, each four panes wide.
The northwest projecting wing, likely built in the early 19th century, has a ground floor sash window in the southeast wall and a top-hung casement window three panes wide on the front wall. The northwest wall features a modern window, possibly an old door, with a canopy above, and a sash window with six panes to the right. The stuccoed northwest gable end of the main wing has an old window with small panes on the first floor, and there is a lean-to wing, possibly a staircase chamber, against it. The rear wing, dating from the 18th to 19th century, has a stuccoed northwest elevation with three sash windows and a two-light casement on the first floor. This northwest wall has a battered base but is not very thick. There is a lower extension with a corrugated roof and a garden wall.
Inside, the building has been converted into a semi-open plan public house but retains 17th century stopped and chamfered beams and a corbelled fireplace, along with an arched doorway leading to the rear wing. It is said to retain three plain original principal rafters.
Local climate
Ye Olde Mason's Arms PH 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 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2023
- Related listed building consents — 13 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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