Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Corntown Court
Ewenny, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 8 June 1990
- Locality
- Corntown
- Town
- Ewenny
- Community
- Ewenny
- Unitary authority
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.48530, -3.55680
- Cadw reference
- 11363
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Near the E edge of the village, set well back from the road, with gated entry to right.
History
C17 or C18 origins, then T shaped, remodelled in mid C19 to form double pile and with some further later alterations. Said to have once been a dowager house to St Donats. At time of tithe apportionment 1842 owned by Lady Harriet Clive (1797 - 1869) who in 1855 gained additional name of Baroness Windsor by Royal Licence .
Exterior
Of limewashed rubble, rendered to side and rear; Welsh slate roof, boarded eaves and end stacks, rendered to left, dressed stone to right. Two storey 5 bay frontage, the centre bay with gabled porch breaks forward; further set back bay left; double pile plan. First floor has 2/2 pane horned sash windows with timber lintels and 4/4 pane horned sashes with cambered heads below; elliptical arched entrance to porch with dressed stone voussoirs, stone seats, panelled door. Twin gabled left (W) frontage; 4/4 pane sashes to first floor of rear wing; at NE corner very broad dressed stone stack at end of kitchen range.
Interior
Interior refurbished and replanned.
Reason for designation
Listed notwithstanding subtantial alterations for its important street frontage within the village.
Nearby in the register
- Corntown FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Former Bethlehem Baptist Church aka Ty CapelReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Former SE Tower at Ewenny Priory (house)Religious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Ewenny Community Village HallRecreationalunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.