Court House is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of Glamorgan local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 10 September 1982. Court house.

Court House

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Vale of Glamorgan
Country
Wales
Date first listed
10 September 1982
Type
Court house
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Court House is a two-storey building with an attic, constructed from rubblestone walls that are roughcast with smooth quoins, dressings, and a first-floor band. The gable ends and rear elevation are finished with smooth render, and the roof is covered with Welsh slate, featuring a stone end stack on the left. The front elevation has five bays with 20th-century two-light wooden casements, each with 8 + 8 small panes set in openings that have rusticated architraves and shaped voussoirs. The second first-floor window from the left is painted. There is a central rusticated door opening topped with a semi-circular wooden hood supported by brackets. Above this is a central pediment or gable that includes a circular window with three by three panes. A garret window is located in the right gable, and there is an external stack on the left gable.

The rear elevation reveals the building's earlier origins, featuring a gabled wing on the left with small windows and a gable stack, and a projecting gabled kitchen wing in the center. The main elevation is otherwise blind, and there are two rooflights.

Inside, the north-east ground floor room contains a lateral stone fireplace dating from around 1500, which has a massive stone slab surround and chamfered jambs. Stairs located to the north-east of the fireplace lead from the ground floor to the attic, with small staircase lights. This room also features ovolo moulded beams aligned on a north-east/south-west axis. The south-west ground floor room has three stopped and chamfered beams oriented on a north-west/south-east axis, along with shutters, dado panelling, and a 19th-century firesurround. The rear ground floor room to the north of the entrance hall has square joists only. The first floor, which was divided into four bedrooms in the 18th century, previously had two larger chambers. The principal rafter roof trusses include two tiers of continuous purlins, which are cut for the central gable as an early 18th-century alteration. These changes are documented in the RCAHMW plans.

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