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II  

Designated  

10/09/1982  

16/12/2004  

The Old Police Station  

 

Vale of Glamorgan  

Llantwit Major  

Cowbridge / Y Bont-Faen  

Llantwit Major  

296572  

168648  

W  

About 80m south-west of the Church of St. Illtud.  

Civil  

 

c1850, it is not shown on the 1840 Tithe map. This building remained the Police Station until the present Llantwit Major one was opened in Wesley Street in 1928.  

Local limestone walls. Welsh slate hipped roof with stone flanking stacks. Two storeys. Front elevation of two window bays and centre doorway and faced with coursed dressed stone of near ashlar quality. The openings with stone lintels; string course; stone plinth. On the ground floor, a tall 2-light casement with 4 + 4 panes each side of central 4-panel door with overlight; a sash window with 6 over 6 panes to each side on first floor. Contemporary centre rear projection with hipped roof, cement rendered cladding which is now removed leaving more roughly finished stonework than on the front. Two sash windows on first floor with cambered heads. To the north-west in Church Lane there is an adjoining lean-to single storey wing with stone walls, stone stack and slate roof.  

Internal shutters to ground floor windows of front elevation. Interior otherwise not seen at resurvey.  

Included as an unaltered small mid C19 Police Station and for its important group value with the medieval gatehouse, the Chantry House or Cottage and the Parish Church of St Illtud in the view of Hillhead from the east.