50 High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of Glamorgan local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 10 July 1968. House.

50 High Street

WRENN ID
north-barrel-sage
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Vale of Glamorgan
Constituency
Vale of Glamorgan MP: Kanishka Narayan (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
10 July 1968
Type
House
Address
50 High Street, Cowbridge, Cowbridge with Llanblethian
OS grid reference
SS 993 746
Coordinates
51.46205, -3.44957
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

50 High Street is a two-storey building with an attic, constructed with exposed local rubble that was previously covered in stucco. It features a slate roof and has stone stacks at both ends. The ground floor has a large modern shop front. To the right of the shop front, there is a semi-circular arched central house doorway that includes a 19th-century fanlight with radiating tracery and a modern door.

On the first floor, there are 12-pane sash windows in the middle and to the right, while a paired sash window, set lower, is located on the left. The attic features three modern gabled dormers. The east gable end has a projecting corbelled chimney, and the rear elevation shows the remains of an external chimney breast with a full-height stair chamber that projects against it. There is also a low two-storey rear wing to the south.

Inside, the building is said to retain a winding stone stair located to the southwest of the front wing on the ground floor. There is a plain ceiling beam running north-south, with one stop-chamfered beam in the first-floor room. Additionally, there is an early to mid-19th-century fireplace with a reeded surround and angle roundels in the east first-floor room.

Local climate

50 High Street 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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