Woodcocks and W G Davies is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of Glamorgan local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 3 February 1981. Religious house.

Woodcocks and W G Davies

WRENN ID
dusk-ember-wax
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
Religious house
Address
Woodcocks and W G Davies, 36-38 High Street, Cowbridge, Cowbridge with Llanblethian
OS grid reference
SS 994 746
Coordinates
51.46187, -3.44851
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Woodcocks and W G Davies is a three-storey building with a four-window front elevation, featuring roughcast cladding and a slate roof. It has a brick stack on the right-hand gable end and another brick stack located between the first and second bays from the east. On the ground floor, there is an elliptical carriage archway with a keystone dated 1832, a modern shopfront with a bay window, and a second broad shopfront. The first floor has sixteen-pane sash windows, while the second floor features smaller twelve-pane sash windows.

At the rear, there is a two-storey wing with asbestos cladding on a slate gabled roof and stone rubble walls. The southeast wall includes a small square chamfered window opening on the first floor to the left, a ledged door with a lintel below, and a modern window to the right. This rear wing was probably originally a free-standing structure.

Inside, there is said to be a second room on the first floor that contains a small fireplace with a bressumer and flanking early to mid-19th century semi-circular arched recesses with reeded frames and impost roundels. The interior also features six-panelled doors and a narrow 19th-century stair. The rear wing has roof trusses with curved foot principal rafters and dove nesting boxes in the south gable.

Local climate

Woodcocks and W G Davies 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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