81 High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of Glamorgan local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 3 February 1981. Commercial, residential. 4 related planning applications.
81 High Street
- WRENN ID
- frozen-cobalt-thrush
- 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
- Commercial, residential
- Address
- 81 High Street, Cowbridge, Cowbridge with Llanblethian
- OS grid reference
- SS 992 747
- Coordinates
- 51.46266, -3.45095
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
81 High Street is a three-storey building with a three-bay elevation, featuring pebbledash cladding and a slate gabled roof topped with a red brick stack on the right side. The building has sash windows throughout. The ground floor showcases a central pedimented doorcase with a plain fanlight above a six-panelled door. On either side of the door, there are storeyed canted three-light bay windows that extend to the first floor. The central first-floor window is a single-light sash window with marginal glazing bars. The second floor has sash windows that are four panes wide, with the left-hand window featuring horns.
Inside, the central walls of the ground floor passage have been removed, but the left-hand ground floor "room" still has an early 19th-century fireplace with a reeded architrave and angle blocks, along with flanking cupboards that have three-panelled doors. The right-hand "room" contains a 19th-century fireplace. A rear staircase, contemporary to the building, has straight balusters and a hardwood rail. The first floor has four-panelled doors, and there is a small bedroom grate on the second floor.
Local climate
81 High Street 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 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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 — 4 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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