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
80857
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
20/09/1990  
Date of Amendment
30/01/2003  
Name of Property
West Bailiff's Lodge at Aberglasney  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Carmarthenshire  
Community
Llangathen  
Town
 
Locality
Aberglasney  
Easting
257998  
Northing
222154  
Street Side
 
Location
To the NW of the house and backing on to the lane to Grongar Farm to the W of the lodge.  

Description


Broad Class
 
Period
 

History
Aberglasney was built by Bishop Rudd of St Davids from 1600 and was one of the largest houses in Carmarthenshire according to the hearth-tax assessment of 1670. It was sold in 1710 to Robert Dyer, who rebuilt and extended the house in the general form in which it now survives. It has been argued that the general layout of the gardens was the work of the Rudd family in the C17. Further major development was undertaken in the early C19, after the purchase by the Philipps family, which included the construction of coach houses and farm buildings around a courtyard NW of the house. East Bailiffs Lodge was originally a coach house and with West Bailiffs Lodge was probably built in the third quarter of the C19. Both are shown on the 1887 Ordnance Survey, replacing an earlier building shown here on the 1839 Tithe map. The coach house has been converted to a dwelling.  

Exterior
 

Interior
The cottage has a 2-unit plan, with plain dog-leg stair opposite the entrance. The main room on the R has an ornate wooden fireplace surround, said to have been brought from the main house.  

Reason for designation
Listed for group value with other listed courtyard buildings and associated items at Aberglasney.  

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