Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
13254
Building Number
Grade
II*
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
22/02/1963
Date of Amendment
16/12/2004
Name of Property
The Gatehouse (Porter's Room)
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Vale of Glamorgan
Community
Llantwit Major
Town
Cowbridge / Y Bont-Faen
Locality
Llantwit Major
Easting
296564
Northing
168661
Street Side
W
Location
About 80m south-west of the Church of St. Illtud. The building is on the roadside and is sited near the south-east corner of the 'Monastery' field.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
C13 gatehouse to the former monastic grange of Tewkesbury Abbey at Llantwit Major. It appears to have been adapted as a house and for agricultural use at different times. It was apparently a house until c1880 and was a Parish Room in 1906 (Rodger).
Exterior
Two storey rectangular structure with squared limestone walls, and a steeply pitched Welsh slate roof with coped verges, which has a chimney to the north-east. Blocked opposing 2-centred archways each about 2m wide in the south-east and north-west elevations, with flanking narrower doorways each about 1m wide, that in the south-east elevation is still in use.
South-east elevation ground floor with ventilator slit to left hand, wide doorway to right hand of centre and single door to right hand again. Upper floor of south-east elevation with a single-light oblong window with chamfered jambs and a central gabled dormer with trefoiled light; this is in the same plane as the wall. A modern window has been inserted over the crown of the blocked archway.
Similar oblong window to upper floor in north-east gable. Against the south-west gable, an external flight of stone steps leads to a doorway with triangular stone head, sheltered by a gabled porch of stone with slate roof; projecting masonry bonds at south-west end.
The north-west elevation has two small square lights and a larger taking-in door inserted between them on the upper floor.
Interior
Interior not available at resurvey, but it is said to have a modern wooden board and joist ceiling to the ground floor.
Reason for designation
Included and highly graded as an important and very complete survival of a key part of an early medieval monastic grange.
Scheduled Ancient Monument No. 141 (GLA).
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