Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Generating House and attached workshops to north-west of Ruperra Castle
Rudry, Caerphilly, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 15 October 1997
- Locality
- Ruperra Castle
- Town
- Caerphilly
- Community
- Rudry
- Unitary authority
- Caerphilly
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.57122, -3.12804
- Cadw reference
- 18973
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
Situated immediately to the west of the stable and coach-house courtyard which is close to Ruperra Castle. Ruperra is reached by a lane running east from the village of Rudry.
History
Probably built in 1920's contemporary with the second phase of estate improvements carried out by Commander Courtney Charles Evan Morgan after he inherited in 1909. It was at this time that electricity was supplied to the estate by steam driven generators.
Ruperra Castle was built c1626 for Sir Thomas Morgan and remained in the family until it was sold in 1962.
Exterior
L-plan single-storey block, roughcast and hipped slate roof as on neighbouring estate buildings. Similar small-pane casement windows with cambered heads. Broad gabled louvre.
Interior
Generators and other machinery in attached workshops now removed.
Reason for designation
Included for group value with Ruperra Castle and the stable and coach-house courtyard as a surviving estate building.
Nearby in the register
- Stable and coach-house courtyard ranges to north of Ruperra CastleDomesticunder 1 mi
- Former Dairy and Laundry to north of Ruperra CastleDomesticunder 1 mi
- Glasshouse to north-east of Ruperra CastleDomesticunder 1 mi
- Ruperra CastleHouse (domestic)under 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.