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
22293
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
16/09/1999
Date of Amendment
Name of Property
Police Station
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Vale of Glamorgan
Community
Cowbridge with Llanblethian
Town
Locality
Cowbridge
Easting
299090
Northing
174790
Street Side
S
Location
Free standing, on prominent site, about half way along S side of Westgate.
Description
Broad Class
Civil
Period
History
Police station, perhaps of 2 periods, mid C19, and circa 1900. Similar in some ways to St Nicholas Police Station, dated 1858.
Exterior
Two storeys. Grey coursed stone (narrower courses to upper floor wings); contrasting buff ashlar dressings, quoins and bands; hipped slate roofs with red tile ridges. Generally sash glazing, but small-pane casements to 3 central ground floor windows. Central projecting block (hipped roof) has 2 pairs of camber-headed windows on first floor, and 3 round-arched windows to ground floor. Single-storey lobby to each side with round-headed doorway to sides; parapet band continues as first floor band in end bays. The end bays have round-headed sashes to gound floors, and paired camber-headed sashes to upper floor.
Interior
Reason for designation
Well-preserved C19 police station on prominent site in Cowbridge conservation area.
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