Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Free-standing Outbuilding at Village Farm incorporating remains of Marcross Castle and sited on SW
St. Donats, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 10 September 1982
- Locality
- Marcross
- Town
- Cowbridge / Y Bont-Faen
- Community
- St. Donats
- Unitary authority
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.41171, -3.54952
- Cadw reference
- 13307
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
Between the cowshed and the road at Village Farm.
History
The medieval remains probably formed part of the local seat and enclosure of the Van family who had inherited through marriage a moiety of Marcross in mid C13 and who held it until the death of the last of the male line in 1694. In C18, the remains formed part of Castle Farm.
Exterior
This outbuilding is a surviving building of the now vanished Castle Farm. It is in two adjoining portions.
The older, NE, portion comprises a range of late C13 or early C14, rebuilt as a C17 outbuilding, re-roofed in C19 and incorporating medieval walling in its SE, NE and NW sides, comprising the remains of Marcross Castle.
Battered NW wall with blocked, chamfered doorway with four-centred head. NE gable with two ventilators with splayed internal reveals but externally with cross-loops, one blocked; blocked loft door above them. SE elevation with ventilator slit, vehicular entry, blocked ground floor doorway and a loft opening. Inside, four bay roof with C19 trusses. Internal stone dividing wall between NE and SW parts of outbuilding.
The SW portion comprises a probably C19 rebuilding, possibly above medieval footings. SE elevation with yellow brick segmental heads to openings; partly blocked window opening each side of door opening. SW gable end with steps to loft opening with brick head. NW elevation with blocked openings with wood lintels.
Reason for designation
Included as a historic survival from a substatial medieval castle of regional interest.
Nearby in the register
- High Wall, comprising remains of Marcross Castle, bounding part of SW Farmyard of Village FarmDomesticunder 1 mi
- Churchyard Wall, Gatepiers and Gates to the Church of the Holy Trinity running along the roadReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Sundial in the Churchyard of the Church of the Holy TrinityReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Church of the Holy TrinityReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.