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
21249
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
29/01/1999
Date of Amendment
29/01/1999
Name of Property
Vehicle store and workshops at Merthyr Mawr House
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Bridgend
Community
Merthyr Mawr
Town
Locality
Merthyr Mawr House
Easting
288901
Northing
177972
Street Side
Location
On the E side of the house and on the N side of the service yard.
Description
Broad Class
Transport
Period
History
Sir John Nicholl purchased the Merthyr Mawr Estate in 1804 and planned a new country residence away from the old manor house, Merthyr Mawr Hall (now the site of Home Farm). A new site was chosen below Chapel Hill which overlooks the Ogmore valley, and the house, with a service range and stables ranged around a yard, were constructed 1806-9. Additions were made to the service range in the 1850s, and the vehicle shed was added by 1899, replacing an earlier small building shown on the same site in 1878.
Exterior
A vehicle shed roughly square in plan, with 2 lower wings, one behind the other, on its L side. Of coursed tooled stone and slate roofs. The vehicle shed and rear wing roofs are hipped, the front wing gabled. The vehicle shed has double sliding boarded doors to the front. Its R side wall is rubble stone. The front wing has a full-height boarded door to the front. The rear wing is wider, has a full-height opening to L and a stack (overgrown) to the rear. The rear wall is of snecked stone with shallow buttresses and forms part of the boundary wall (see item 11371).
Interior
Not inspected at the time of survey (May 1998).
Reason for designation
Included for group value with Merthyr Mawr House and other associated listed items.
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