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
11769
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
19/09/1969
Date of Amendment
30/01/2004
Name of Property
Aberpergwm House
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Neath Port Talbot
Community
Glynneath
Town
Neath
Locality
Aberpergwm
Easting
286698
Northing
206279
Street Side
Location
On the W side of Glynneath, reached by a drive NW off the B4242.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Ruins of a large mansion of possibly medieval to C19 date, abandoned in later C20. Neuadd Pergwm was celebrated by bards in the C15-16, and was owned from c. 1560 by the Williams family formerly of Blaen Baglan. The house had a central pediment and crenellations in the mid C19 before large additions were made in 1876 for M. S. Williams who added a new front range with neo-Elizabethan detail and long gallery on top floor. Leased to the National Coal Board who mined in the park, abandoned and derelict, the roofs and upper floor collapsed.
Exterior
Ruins of a large mansion, abandoned and derelict, the roofs and upper floor collapsed. Windows with painted surround on 2 levels of ruined facade with hoodmoulds to ground floor. Chimneys to N end.
Interior
Not inspected.
Reason for designation
Included as the ruins of an important South Wales gentry house.
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