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
11219
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
06/06/1952
Date of Amendment
02/01/1998
Name of Property
Prince of Wales Inn, also known as Ty Newydd
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Bridgend
Community
Cornelly
Town
Cynffig
Locality
Kenfig
Easting
280365
Northing
181801
Street Side
E
Location
The former borough of Kenfig lies W of North Cornelly, on the edge of the sand dunes. The inn stands facing S, with the gable end against the road from Maudlam to Porthcawl.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
The Borough of Kenfig first appears in history in 1140's when the Earl of Gloucester built a church for the planted English settlement and port.
This building, which began as a meeting chamber raised on pillars, may incorporate fabric erected with monies bequeathed by Evan Griffith in 1605, when he left six shillings (thirty pence) 'promised towards building a courthouse in Kenfig'. The building contains a first floor court room where Courts Leet met twice annually, and Courts of Pleas, Inquests and the Hall Days and the Gwyliau Mabsant were convened, and where the burgesses assembled under their government of an elected portreeve and 12 aldermen. The building also did duty as a schoolroom for the borough from the 1670's and a Sunday school was held there from 1864. It is also known as the Guildhall and is still used for a variety of functions and holds a pictorial record of events associated with the historic borough of Kenfig. The present structure is probably that said to have been rebuilt in 1808, and was modified and adapted in the later C19 and C20.
Exterior
Built of rubble stonework, with a graded slate roof between coped end gables. Painted gable stacks. Two storeys, 3 bays. Symmetrical elevation to the two left bays, with inset doorway with cambered head, flanked by C20 stained timber paned windows, also with cambered rubble voussoir heads. Two windows to W gable upper floor, and a stone flight of steps between the E gable end and an adjoining 2-storey building set at right angles. Various additions at the rear.
Interior
The ground floor plan has been modified by removal of internal walls. End fireplaces. The Town Hall or Court Room on the upper floor, approached by an external flight of steps, is entered at the NE corner. It has 5 bays formed with open timber trusses ceiled at collar level, all probably C18 but restored. Some C17 wall panelling and wooden benches, partly original but mostly restored, and a raised dais at the W end.
Reason for designation
Graded II largely on its special historical interest as the focus of the former decayed borough of Cynffig/Kenfig.
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