Full Report for Listed Buildings


Summary Description of a Listed Buildings


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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