Staff House in north-east corner of the Entrance Forecourt at St Donats Castle is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of Glamorgan local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 10 September 1982. Village. 6 related planning applications.
Staff House in north-east corner of the Entrance Forecourt at St Donats Castle
- WRENN ID
- vacant-zinc-ivy
- 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
- Village
- Address
- Staff House in north-east corner of the Entrance Forecourt at St Donats Castle, Cowbridge / Y Bont-Faen
- OS grid reference
- SS 935 681
- Coordinates
- 51.4024, -3.53201
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Staff House, located in the north-east corner of the Entrance Forecourt at St Donats Castle, features limestone rubble walls that show signs of rebuilding. It has a Welsh slate roof with coping, a stone chimney breast on the south-west gable, and a stone stack with a crow-stepped parapet on the north-east gable.
On the courtyard elevation, the ground floor includes, from the left, a 2-light casement window, a pointed doorway with hollow chamfers, and two 3-light casement windows. The first floor has two modern 3-light casements with leaded glazing.
The rear or south-east elevation has a full-height wall projection at the south end, which contains a single light window on the left and a 2-light window on the right. The rear wall of the house features a 3-light modern metal framed window both above and below. The interior has not been inspected during the resurvey.
Local climate
Staff House in north-east corner of the Entrance Forecourt at St Donats Castle 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
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- Related listed building consents — 6 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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