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
13323
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
16/12/1952
Date of Amendment
19/01/2005
Name of Property
St Donats Arts Centre
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Vale of Glamorgan
Community
St. Donats
Town
Cowbridge / Y Bont-Faen
Locality
St Donats Castle
Easting
293501
Northing
168109
Street Side
Location
Immediately to the east of the castle ditch at St Donats Castle.
Description
Broad Class
Education
Period
History
Thought to be of medieval origins and possibly dating mainly from the later C16. It is a surviving building from the St. Donat's Home Farm. Both the barn and the lower extension on the south-east seem to be shown on the Buck brothers' engraving of 1740. The barn was carefully repaired and converted into St. Donat's Arts Centre in 1973-7 by Alex. Gordon and Partners.
Exterior
Local lias limestone rubble walls, partly rendered, with a Welsh slate roof. South-west elevation (facing the Castle) from the left, ventilator slit in blocked doorway with stone dressings and voussoirs, with small opening above, below eaves; central wide segmentally arched barn doorway flanked by full height buttresses faced with pebbledash, the arch has probably been rebuilt; the south-east part of this elevation is also faced in pebbledash. South-east end with window of 2-lights with dripstone, set high in gable. North-east elevation has quoins, with deep arched barn doorway in centre, with single light window slit to left hand and with a lower segmentally arched doorway to right hand; this appears to be an alteration, small opening under the eaves.
Against the south-east end of the barn there is a further, lower wing with stone walls. In its south-east gable, there is a segmental doorway and window on ground floor, a single light window on first floor and a 2-light mullioned window to attic. The wing at right angles to this, on the south-west, appears to be substantially of the 1970s.
Interior
The interior of the main barn area was not available for inspection at resurvey, but it is known to have whitewashed walls and an eight bay collar truss roof. The south-east wing has a ground floor with two chamfered ceiling beams.
Reason for designation
Included for its special interest and group value as a part of St. Donat's Castle and its associated gardens.
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