Built 1986-87 to the designs of J. R. C. Bethell, County Architect for South Glamorgan. Four ranges built around a rectangular courtyard. Three main storeys with shallow-pitched black slate roofs and under roofs. These sloping roof lines are echoed lower down by the continuous metal awnings over the ground storey. The third floor, which projets as a glazed oriel, is supported on slender piers of orange-brown brick. It represents a departure from brutalist and grand civic buildings.

(Source: John Newman 'Buildings of Wales: Glamorgan', 1995, p. 266)
J Hill 19/04/2004