Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Former Stables at St John's College (formerlyTy-to-Maen)
Old St. Mellons, Cardiff, Wales
A Grade II listed building in St Mellons, Cardiff, Old St. Mellons, designated on 31 August 2000.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Education
- Date of designation
- 31 August 2000
- Locality
- St Mellons
- Town
- Cardiff
- Community
- Old St. Mellons
- Unitary authority
- Cardiff
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.52831, -3.11136
- Cadw reference
- 23960
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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)
- 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)
- 1898 · 263 Cardiff (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1913 · Sheet 110. Cardiff & Mouth of the Severn. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
To the rear of the main house, reached by a drive.
History
Probably roughly contemporary with the house c 1885.
Exterior
Former stables altered to junior classrooms. U-shaped range facing into a courtyard; entrance with 2 stone piers with pyramidal caps, low wall and part replaced railings and gates forming the 4th side. Built of rubble in rustic style with ashlar dressings, brick rear elevation. Part Welsh slate part artificial slate roof with polygonal brick stacks on stone plinths; terracotta ridge tiles of differing designs. Windows are mostly cross-framed with chamfered mullions and transoms with very small panes to the upper lights and to the upper sash of the lower lights. Former carriage doorways are filled in with part boarded part glazed panels incorporating matching small panes. The 3 main doorway bays have half-timbered gables with overhanging eaves and twin small-pane lights; at centre below is a doorway with boarded door and small pane overlight. At end the bay has a cross window either side of doorway. To left 3 separate doorways with boarded doors and flanking windows; to right a single doorway with further windows. Outward facing gable ends have loft windows; the timber framing supported by brackets rests on a cornice moulding, shaped bargeboards. To outer facing rear are 5 segmental-arched openings under eaves.
Interior
Interior converted to classrooms.
Reason for designation
Listed as a well-designed stable block for group value with the house and terrace.
Nearby in the register
- St John's College (formerly Ty-to-Maen)Health and Welfareunder 1 mi
- Garden Terrace at St John's College (formerly Ty-to-Maen)Gardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Lychgate to St Mellons ChurchReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- White Oaks (aka Rosminian Convent)Domesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.