Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Stable at Cascade House drive
Gelligaer, Caerphilly, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 18 July 2001
- Locality
- Pen-pedair-heol
- Community
- Gelligaer
- Unitary authority
- Caerphilly
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.67086, -3.23952
- Cadw reference
- 25529
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
Near the entrance of the drive to Cascade House
History
Cast iron plate on front records 'John Perrott 1838'. He was the owner of Cascade House at the time of the Tithe Apportionment of 1842, the farm then let to Thomas Lewis with Pen y Daren. Straight joints and differing masonry style show later extensions, with some other signs alteration or repair. John Perrott inscription is also on barn range at nearby Rhos-yr-wyfa.
Exterior
Stable block, of narrow-coursed rubble with tooled ashlar dressings, rough stone voussoirs, and Welsh slate roof, not intact. Centre right cambered-headed stable door with window to left and loft opening above; at end left a wide arched cart or carriage bay with double doors; lean-to wing to left with 2 similar doorways, similar to right with single door. Ventilation slit in loft gable end.
Reason for designation
Included as an unusually dated early - mid C19 stable , retaining its character, with close connections to and for group value with Cascade House.
Nearby in the register
- Cascade HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Former farm building at Cascade HouseAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Tir Pengam including attached barn and byre range to SDomesticunder 1 mi
- Horeb Baptist ChurchReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.