Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Boverton Place including attached bee-boles
Llantwit Major, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II*
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 10 September 1982
- Locality
- Boverton
- Town
- Cowbridge / Y Bont-Faen
- Community
- Llantwit Major
- Unitary authority
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.40495, -3.46409
- Cadw reference
- 13245
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
On the south side of Boverton village centre.
History
c1587, a mansion built to the order of Roger Seys (Attorney General for Wales in 1592; died c1599, aged 60). The family moved out to Boverton House (qv) in the later C17 and Boverton Place fell into disuse and decay in the C18.
Exterior
In ruins and completely unroofed, but no longer overgrown with ivy. Built of local limestone rubble with most of the dressed stone robbed, some can be seen in surrounding buildings, some of the high up windows survive. Seven bay wide north-west elevation with projecting tower with square staircase turret with single-light windows at north-east and south-east elevation with three gables, clustered chimney stacks and higher gabled tower wing. Once mullioned window openings, with all the mullions missing apart from one in the stair tower.
The north wall to the former probably ancillary buildings, now demolished, adjoins the north-west angle of the mansion. The wall extending north-east from the north-east angle of the mansion has stone arched beeboles in its south-east elevation (not seen at resurvey).
Interior
Some stone fireplaces and doorways with chamfered arched heads survive internally. Interior not inspected at resurvey.
Reason for designation
Included as the ruined survival of a major late C16 house.
Scheduled Ancient Monument, Glamorgan .
Nearby in the register
- Boverton PlaceHouse (domestic)under 1 mi
- Boverton Park HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- The CausewayDomesticunder 1 mi
- NavronDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.