52 High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of Glamorgan local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 3 February 1981. Farmhouse. 5 related planning applications.
52 High Street
- WRENN ID
- patient-window-rook
- 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
- Farmhouse
- Address
- 52 High Street, Cowbridge, Cowbridge with Llanblethian, CF71 7AH
- OS grid reference
- SS 993 746
- Coordinates
- 51.46208, -3.44968
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
52 High Street is a three-storey building featuring a three-window front. It has roughcast cladding and a slate roof with stone stacks on either side. The ground floor includes a 20th-century shop front that resembles its 19th-century predecessor, with painted brick stall-risers. To the right, there is a square-headed vehicular entrance with modern wrought-iron gates leading to Ballards Court. The top floor has three 9-pane sash windows, while the first floor has two 12-pane sash windows and a paired sash window on the left.
Local climate
52 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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