Full Report for Listed Buildings


The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.

Summary Description


Reference Number
13232
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
03/02/1981  
Date of Amendment
16/09/1999  
Name of Property
Rose Cottage, including forecourt garden walls  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Vale of Glamorgan  
Community
Cowbridge with Llanblethian  
Town
 
Locality
Cowbridge  
Easting
299318  
Northing
174579  
Street Side
N  
Location
Adjacent (to W) of Town Gate.  

Description


Broad Class
Domestic  
Period
 

History
Probably early C19.  

Exterior
Two storey cottage built against the line of, or incorporating, the structure of the medieval town wall which extends as far as the South Gate which Rose Cottage adjoins. Rose Cottage has colourwashed stone rubble walls; slate gabled roof with stone stack at each end, smaller to left hand. Front elevation of two bays and centre doorway with two-light casement windows, the left hand first floor one set lower and with two taller windows on ground floor. Colourwashed brick gabled porch in centre with modern half-glazed door and modern glazed door to rear. Inside, right hand ground floor room with narrow chamfered beam with stops. Stone rubble garden wall to front; to R turning at corner and extending as far N as Medieval S gate of tow; to L higher with rounded rubble coping. Gateway with iron gate opposite door of Rose Cottage; gate has slender iron uprights with scroll finials rising alternately above top and middle rails.  

Interior
 

Reason for designation
Late C18/early C19 cottage on line of town walls and adjacent to medieval town gate. Group value with adjacent listed structures.  

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