Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Former Stable Block at Faendre Hall
Trowbridge, Cardiff, Wales
A Grade II listed building in St Mellons, Cardiff, Trowbridge, designated on 10 June 1977.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 10 June 1977
- Locality
- St Mellons
- Town
- Cardiff
- Community
- Trowbridge
- Unitary authority
- Cardiff
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.53287, -3.09153
- Cadw reference
- 13946
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1637 · The fourth table of England. Cornub. Devonia, Somerset etc. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1865 · England and Wales. England No. 6. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1895 · Sheet 11. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1963 · Map No. 1 - Local Government Commission for Wales : [Definitive maps showing proposed… (National Library of Scotland)
Cadw's description
Location
Situated to the rear of the Hall, the drive bifurcating with one section leading to the stables and the other to the Hall.
History
Probably contemporary with the Hall built 1850. The stables and coach-house are modest in size but the architectural flourishes and in particular high copings and extensive frontage make them appear grander.
Exterior
Stable block in Gothic Revival style. Built of stone rubble with ashlar dressings and Welsh slate roofs with high copings and apex finials. Asymmetrical frontage of two main linked wings fronting stable-tiled yard, with lower wing to left entered from kitchen garden. Stable wing to left has wide central bay with shaped gable incorporating at first floor a boarded shaped hayloft opening and below a chamfered Tudor-arched doorway with boarded door flanked by chamfered rectangular lights; metal armatures incorporate opening casements, glazing lost; to left paired lights; similar to right but these light a separately roofed linking bay to the coach-house range. This comprises two gabled bays of different design with wide 4-centred arched openings; the wider is to left with ventilation slit above; that to right, slightly stepped back, has a cartouche above; both retain boarded doors, that to right with overlight. Attached and stepped down to left is a garden wing with hipped roof and ventilator and brick segmental arched entrance; from this extends a stone wall with brick coping enclosing the garden to rear of the house.
Interior
Interior of coach-house retains plastered ceiling and flag floor.
Reason for designation
Listed as an integral part of the Faendre Hall park; group value with other listed items here.
Nearby in the register
- Faendre HallDomesticunder 1 mi
- Lodge at Faendre HallDomesticunder 1 mi
- Circular garden seat at Faendre HallGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Entrance Gateway at Faendre HallDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.