High Wall, comprising remains of Marcross Castle, bounding part of SW Farmyard of Village Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of Glamorgan local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 10 September 1982. House.

High Wall, comprising remains of Marcross Castle, bounding part of SW Farmyard of Village Farm

WRENN ID
tenth-lancet-lichen
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
House
Address
High Wall, comprising remains of Marcross Castle, bounding part of SW Farmyard of Village Farm, Cowbridge / Y Bont-Faen, St. Donats
OS grid reference
SS 923 692
Coordinates
51.41158, -3.54995
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

High Wall includes the remains of the southwest curtain wall of Marcross Castle. This section of medieval walling is made of stone rubble and features a blocked arched light that once led to a first-floor hall. To the northwest, the wall is lower, and to the southeast, it is bordered by a later 20th-century outbuilding that shows no signs of older construction.

Local climate

High Wall, comprising remains of Marcross Castle, bounding part of SW Farmyard of Village Farm 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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