Town Walls is a Grade II* listed building in the Vale of Glamorgan local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 5 December 1963. Town walls. 4 related planning applications.
Town Walls
- WRENN ID
- broken-soffit-vale
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Constituency
- Vale of Glamorgan MP: Kanishka Narayan (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 5 December 1963
- Type
- Town walls
- Address
- Town Walls, Cowbridge, Cowbridge with Llanblethian
- OS grid reference
- SS 992 746
- Coordinates
- 51.46154, -3.45138
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Town Walls are a Grade II* listed structure made of stone rubble, standing about 3.5 metres high on average, though they likely once reached approximately 7.6 metres and included an internal walkway. The walls in the Butts area are castellated and feature a bastion at the southwest angle, which is circular in plan with a polygonal upper storey. This bastion was probably used as a summer-house during the post-medieval period. There is a doorway leading to gardens south of the Mason's Arms, facing the gardens, which includes an inner retaining wall that is turfed. To the east of the bastion, the walls have two doorways: a round-headed doorway to the west and a doorway with a Tudor head to the east. Additionally, to the north, facing the gardens, there are stone rubble gate piers with moulded copings. The walls extend to the west as garden walls, built on the foundations of medieval walls.
Local climate
Town Walls 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
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- 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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