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
13307
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
10/09/1982
Date of Amendment
19/01/2005
Name of Property
Free-standing Outbuilding at Village Farm incorporating remains of Marcross Castle and sited on SW
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Vale of Glamorgan
Community
St. Donats
Town
Cowbridge / Y Bont-Faen
Locality
Marcross
Easting
292332
Northing
169216
Street Side
Location
Between the cowshed and the road at Village Farm.
Description
Broad Class
Agriculture and Subsistence
Period
History
The medieval remains probably formed part of the local seat and enclosure of the Van family who had inherited through marriage a moiety of Marcross in mid C13 and who held it until the death of the last of the male line in 1694. In C18, the remains formed part of Castle Farm.
Exterior
This outbuilding is a surviving building of the now vanished Castle Farm. It is in two adjoining portions.
The older, NE, portion comprises a range of late C13 or early C14, rebuilt as a C17 outbuilding, re-roofed in C19 and incorporating medieval walling in its SE, NE and NW sides, comprising the remains of Marcross Castle.
Battered NW wall with blocked, chamfered doorway with four-centred head. NE gable with two ventilators with splayed internal reveals but externally with cross-loops, one blocked; blocked loft door above them. SE elevation with ventilator slit, vehicular entry, blocked ground floor doorway and a loft opening. Inside, four bay roof with C19 trusses. Internal stone dividing wall between NE and SW parts of outbuilding.
The SW portion comprises a probably C19 rebuilding, possibly above medieval footings. SE elevation with yellow brick segmental heads to openings; partly blocked window opening each side of door opening. SW gable end with steps to loft opening with brick head. NW elevation with blocked openings with wood lintels.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as a historic survival from a substatial medieval castle of regional interest.
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