The Old Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of Glamorgan local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 10 July 1968. House.
The Old Hall
- WRENN ID
- waning-clay-flax
- 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
- The Old Hall, Cowbridge, Cowbridge with Llanblethian
- OS grid reference
- SS 993 747
- Coordinates
- 51.46241, -3.4509
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Old Hall is a two-storey building dating from the 19th century. It features a porch and a north gable that is faced with stone in snecked courses. The porch and gable are positioned between recessed blocks of three and four windows, with the ground floor clad in cement render and the first floor finished with pebbledash. The roofs are covered with slate. To the right of the gable, there is a block with a Tudor doorway and a window to the right, followed by a long wing where the roof slopes down over the first floor.
The 18th-century rear wing retains the ground floor of the southwest elevation as a screen. This section is made of rusticated ashlar and features later 20th-century tracery in the window openings. The central projection has a pedimented Ionic entrance, flanked by single round-headed window openings on each side, which are further flanked by Venetian window openings. The building has two gables at the ends of the former wings.
There is a long, renovated northwest wing that includes a vehicular gateway at the northwest end. Beyond this gateway, a stone boundary wall mostly retains its plinth and coping, extending to the southeast end of Ye Olde Masons Arms. Inside, there is a 16th or 17th-century stopped and chamfered fireplace on the first floor.
Local climate
The Old Hall 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 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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