Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
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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