Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Remains of Cwrt-y-vil Grange (generally known as Cwrt-y-Vil Castle)
Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 21 January 1993
- Community
- Penarth
- Unitary authority
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.42514, -3.18185
- Cadw reference
- 13346
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
In garden of No 2 Castle Avenue, to N of house.
History
Circa 1180 Osbert of Pennard granted land to Augustinian canons from St Augustine's abbey Bristol who established a grange (monastic manor) at Penarth. When St Augustine's became cathedral following Dissolution of Monasteries farm became property of Cathedral chapter.
Exterior
Remains consist of shell of barn range with attached room to W, aligned roughly E-W, into which have been inserted C20 garages and outhouses (replacing C19 stables). S wall and S half of W wall have been lost. Random rubble walls (occasionally coursed) stand up to 2m high, with putlog holes. There is a splayed slit window in the E wall and blocked doorway to N wall of W room. NE corner of W room has beginnings of corbelling.
Length of range approx 24m by 7m with a cross wall approx 5m from W end.
Modern house not included in list.
Nearby in the register
- The Red HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Sea RoadsNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Leigh HolmeDomesticunder 1 mi
- GreylandsDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.