History

Commissioned by the Bridgend & Cowbridge Union, October 1836, completed Autumn 1838. Designed by George Wilkinson, architect of Witney (Oxfordshire). Cost £4,100. Originally to house 200 persons.

Exterior

Plan form of 3 parallel ranges linked by a spinal range running from rear of S range. 2-storeys, 7-3-5 windows with advanced centre. Blue lias facings, sandstone dressings, slate roofs. Cusped bargeboards with finials to gables over 1st floor windows, 3 steep gables with parapets, kneelers and inscribed cartouche to centre. Plain band courses between storeys, low plinth. Voussoir lintels, 2-light windows with small casements on upper floor, modern frames to ground floor. Pair of stone doorcases to centre with drip stones. Gothic arches and flush-panelled doors.

Single-storey hipped roof extensions over arched entrance at road end.

Modern buildings to right end with 1-storey flat roof extension to S are not of special interest. Western rubble walled 2-storey courtyard survives radiating from 3-storey octagon with splayed ornately gabled angles. Canted single-storey rubble range overlooking road, raised by one storey to S end beside side access to walled courtyard.

External Links

• Cadwr Listing
• Wikidata Q29489788

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Recommended Books

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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)