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
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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

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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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