The Great House is a Grade II* listed building in the Vale of Glamorgan local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 5 December 1963. House. 2 related planning applications.
The Great House
- WRENN ID
- calm-pier-brook
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Constituency
- Vale of Glamorgan MP: Kanishka Narayan (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 5 December 1963
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Great House, 32&34 High Street, Cowbridge, Cowbridge with Llanblethian
- OS grid reference
- SS 994 746
- Coordinates
- 51.46183, -3.44826
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Great House is a two-storey building with an attic, featuring a front elevation of four bays and paired gables in the attic. The exterior is clad in roughcast, topped with a slate gabled roof. On the ground floor, there are four stone steps leading to a semi-circular headed door opening, which contains a six fielded panelled door, a fanlight with radiating tracery, and an open pediment supported by reeded pilasters. To the right of this door, there are two sash windows, each three panes wide. The second bay has a doorway similar to the first, and the last bay features a shop front that possibly has a 19th-century casing but with 20th-century windows.
On the first floor, there are four 12-pane sash windows, and in the attic, each gable has a small Venetian window of vernacular design. The northwest side elevation has an original transomed and mullioned window, while a four-light transomed and mullioned window can be seen from the staircase of number 30 on the southeast side elevation. The rear elevation includes, from the left, a two-light stone mullioned window, a corbelled chimney, and a third feature that is now concealed by an 18th to 19th-century northwest rear wing; this last feature is the original first-floor entry, which has a moulded and chamfered depressed four-centred stone arch. The original southeast rear wing has a corbelled stone chimney on its gable end.
Internally, aside from the first-floor entry, other original features are hidden. The interior of the original southeast rear wing has not been inspected. There are four fielded panel doors on the first floor in number 34.
Local climate
The Great House 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
- 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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