Church Hall House (former Cory Institute) is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of Glamorgan local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 17 February 1992. Mill. 3 related planning applications.
Church Hall House (former Cory Institute)
- WRENN ID
- sombre-pillar-dock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Constituency
- Vale of Glamorgan MP: Kanishka Narayan (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 17 February 1992
- Type
- Mill
- Address
- Church Hall House (former Cory Institute), St Nicholas, St. Nicholas and Bonvilston
- OS grid reference
- ST 090 742
- Coordinates
- 51.45994, -3.31102
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Church Hall House, formerly known as the Cory Institute, is a two-storey building designed in the Arts and Crafts style. It features a tower and a house to the west. The structure is built from coursed liassic rubble and has a red tiled roof with overhanging eaves. The roof is complemented by red brick stacks that have corbelled caps and a string course.
The upper floor of the tower is rendered and topped with a swept pyramidal roof that includes a finial and a weather-vane. The upper portion of the east gable is adorned with clay tile-hanging and a band of fish-scale tiling. The building has brick stacks as well.
The first floor of both the tower and the house features cross-frame windows, while the house also has similar architraves and a prominent 5-light camber-headed window. The entrance to the tower is round-headed, with voussoirs and imposts, leading to boarded doors. The east gable displays an exposed red brick stack flanked by multi-paned casement windows, which have red brick dressings and gauged arches above them. The west end of the building has a splayed bay with similar glazing, and the roof slopes down low behind it, featuring a hipped roof that projects over a tall window that steps down to the rear. The interior was not inspected.
Local climate
Church Hall House (former Cory Institute) sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,110 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
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