The Old Police Station is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of Glamorgan local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 10 September 1982. Police station.
The Old Police Station
- WRENN ID
- other-corridor-umber
- 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
- Police station
- Address
- The Old Police Station, Llantwit Major, Cowbridge / Y Bont-Faen
- OS grid reference
- SS 965 686
- Coordinates
- 51.40739, -3.48843
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Old Police Station is a two-storey building constructed with local limestone walls and features a hipped roof made of Welsh slate, along with stone stacks on either side. The front of the building has two window bays and a central doorway, all faced with coursed dressed stone that is nearly of ashlar quality. The openings have stone lintels, a string course, and a stone plinth. On the ground floor, there is a tall two-light casement window with four panes on each side of a central four-panel door that has an overlight above it. On the first floor, there are sash windows with six over six panes on either side.
At the back, there is a contemporary projection with a hipped roof that originally had cement rendered cladding, which has since been removed, exposing more roughly finished stonework compared to the front. This projection has two sash windows on the first floor with cambered heads.
To the north-west, along Church Lane, there is a single-storey lean-to wing that is attached to the building. This wing has stone walls, a stone stack, and a slate roof.
The ground floor windows on the front elevation have internal shutters, but the interior has not been seen during the latest survey.
Local climate
The Old Police Station 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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- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2003
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