Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Cadoxton Court
Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 30 March 1995
- Locality
- Cadoxton
- Community
- Barry
- Unitary authority
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.41175, -3.25567
- Cadw reference
- 15902
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 elevated site above Gladstone Road, entered from Mount Pleasant.
History
Two-storey house of circa 1873, for Rev John Hughes; on or near site of late medieval Manor House.
Exterior
Brown rubble with contrasting bathstone ashlar, slate roof, stone chimneys. East elevation has, to R, gable, mullioned window to each floor, with lancet windows to L. To L, 2 gablets below which are (first floor), paired lancet windows; on ground floor (L), splayed bay window with stepped crenellations, to R, pair of mullioned windows. S gabled end has paired lancets to first floor, and ground floor splayed bay window with stepped crenellations. To L of this, at right angles, 2-storey gabled entrance block; beyond this, larger 2-storeyed gabled block.
Reason for designation
Included as good example of Victorian domestic architecture in harmony with adjacent medieval dovecot.
Group value with dovecot.
Nearby in the register
- Dovecote at Cadoxton CourtDomesticunder 1 mi
- Cross in Churchyard at Church of St CadocReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Church of St CadocReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- The Old SchoolhouseEducationunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.