The Poplars, including garden walls and gate is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of Glamorgan local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 3 February 1981. House.
The Poplars, including garden walls and gate
- WRENN ID
- open-plinth-gilt
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Constituency
- Vale of Glamorgan MP: Kanishka Narayan (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 3 February 1981
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Poplars, including garden walls and gate, Cowbridge, Cowbridge with Llanblethian
- OS grid reference
- SS 994 744
- Coordinates
- 51.46049, -3.44924
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Poplars is a two-storey house dating from the 19th century, which includes an adjoining single-storey service wing to the southeast. Both the house and the service wing have stone walls; the rear elevation of the house is made of stone rubble, while the front elevation is faced with coursed stone. The gable walls of the house are hung with slate. The roof is gabled and covered with slate and slate asbestos, featuring stone stacks on either side.
The front elevation has three bays, with a sash window without glazing bars on the ground floor flanking a central doorway. This doorway is adorned with a wooden trellis porch that has a tented roof and a half-glazed panelled door, with the top panels having rounded heads. On the first floor, there are three sash windows, each four panes wide. The rear or northwest elevation features three two-light casements with small panes on the first floor. On the ground floor, there is a similar casement on each side of a doorway that is asymmetrically placed relative to the centre first floor window. This doorway has a ledged door and a lean-to porch with a sloping roof and boarded sides.
The property is surrounded by a stone wall, with a 19th-century iron gate on the southwest side leading to the front elevation. There is also a stone stile in front of the rear elevation on the northwest side.
Local climate
The Poplars, including garden walls and gate 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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