Principality Building Society is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of Glamorgan local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 3 February 1981. Church. 3 related planning applications.
Principality Building Society
- WRENN ID
- turning-grate-pigeon
- 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
- Church
- Address
- Principality Building Society, 28 High Street, Cowbridge, Cowbridge with Llanblethian
- OS grid reference
- SS 994 746
- Coordinates
- 51.46177, -3.44806
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Principality Building Society is a two-storey structure with a roughcast exterior and a slate gabled roof that aligns with the roofline of the buildings to the left. On the ground floor, there is a wide 20th-century shop front projection featuring a modern doorway on the left side. The first floor has two sash windows, each consisting of three panes.
Local climate
Principality Building Society 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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