Building to rear of Town Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of Glamorgan local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 16 September 1999. Building.
Building to rear of Town Hall
- WRENN ID
- seventh-hammer-smoke
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Constituency
- Vale of Glamorgan MP: Kanishka Narayan (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 16 September 1999
- Type
- Building
- Address
- Building to rear of Town Hall, Cowbridge, Cowbridge with Llanblethian
- OS grid reference
- SS 995 746
- Coordinates
- 51.4622, -3.44695
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The building located at the rear of the Town Hall is a Grade II listed structure, constructed from local grey stone with bathstone dressings and featuring slate roofs. It is designed in the Tudor style.
On the southwest elevation, there is an almost central doorway with a Tudor arch, which is surrounded by pierced arcading that includes small lights. To the left of the doorway, there is a four-light window, and to the right, a three-light window. Above, there is a central gablet dormer with small pane glazing.
The left elevation features a gable with a large Tudor window of three lights, followed by a block that has three three-light mullion and transom windows, capped by a plain rendered gable.
Facing the square, the building displays three gables; the left gable has a large Tudor window of three lights, the center has a doorway and a small three-light window, and the third gable also has a small three-light window.
Local climate
Building to rear of Town Hall 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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