Colours is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of Glamorgan local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 16 September 1999. Commercial. 1 related planning application.
Colours
- WRENN ID
- sombre-buttress-brook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Constituency
- Vale of Glamorgan MP: Kanishka Narayan (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 16 September 1999
- Type
- Commercial
- Address
- Colours, 66 Eastgate, Cowbridge, Cowbridge with Llanblethian
- OS grid reference
- SS 996 745
- Coordinates
- 51.461, -3.44543
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Colours is a three-storey building with a two-window front. It features roughcast render over local stone, which is exposed on the ground floor that has a modern shopfront. The roof is slate with a brick stack on the right side. The windows are offset to the left. The top floor has 12-pane hornless sash windows, arranged as 4 panes over 8. The first floor has 16-pane horned sash windows. On the ground floor, to the left, there is a round-headed doorway.
Local climate
Colours 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.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2014
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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