Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
83112
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
03/09/2004
Date of Amendment
03/09/2004
Name of Property
Bullhouse (Old Chapel) at West Aberthaw Farm
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Vale of Glamorgan
Community
St. Athan
Town
Barry
Locality
West Aberthaw
Easting
302321
Northing
166835
Street Side
Location
A part of the farmyard group about 50m west of West Aberthaw Farmhouse.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
This building is said to have been a chapel dedicated to St. Nicholas but there is no real visual evidence to support this, unless the base of the walls, where they are thicker and battered, indicates some medieval fabric. It does, however, appear to have been converted in the C19 into a bullhouse from an earlier building of a possibly ecclesiastical character. It seems to be shown on the Tithe Map of 1839.
Exterior
The building is constructed of roughly coursed local lias limestone rubble with dressed quoins, Welsh slate roof. It is a single cell building on two storeys with a gabled roof. The entrance is in the east gable and has a quoined doorway under a flat stone lintel. Above this is evidence of a blocked window with segmental head and above that signs that the gable has been raised. The south wall has indications of two blocked windws over a C19 doorway. The wallhead has been raised, as has that on the north wall where it accommodates a plain door to the hayloft. West gable end not seen.
Interior
The interior, which shows the thicker base walling, is divided into two pens and retains its wooden hayrack. Queen strut roof trusses with iron reinforcement on the struts.
Reason for designation
Included for its special interest as a part of a very complete C19 Vale farmstead group.
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