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
13239
Building Number
4
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
03/02/1981
Date of Amendment
16/09/1999
Name of Property
National Westminster Bank
Address
4 Westgate
Location
Unitary Authority
Vale of Glamorgan
Community
Cowbridge with Llanblethian
Town
Locality
Cowbridge
Easting
299218
Northing
174739
Street Side
S
Location
Near junction with The Butts.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
The National Provincial Bank was established in Cowbridge in 1835; but on the Tithe Map, stamped 1843, and apportionment of 1840, the site of the "National Bank" is shown on the present site of no 62 High Street.
Exterior
Mid C19. Two storeys. Five bay front elevation with stuccoed render and slate gabled roof with stuccoed flanking stacks. On ground floor, four tall segmentally headed sash windows (12-pane, hornless); square prostyle centre porch with stuccoed moulded cornice, rectangular recess in each return and front square-headed doorway in rectangular recess doorway with plain overlight and double mid to later C19 style moulded panelled doors. Five square-headed sash windows (12-pane, horned) on first floor. Late C19 hood to ground floor doorway in R elevation.
Interior
Reason for designation
Well-preserved C19 bank building.
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