Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
22293
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
16/09/1999
Date of Amendment
16/09/1999
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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