Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Well House
Wenvoe, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 10 October 2002
- Locality
- Dyffryn
- Community
- Wenvoe
- Unitary authority
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.43740, -3.30573
- Cadw reference
- 26991
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
In the hamlet of Dyffryn S of the Dyffryn gardens boundary wall.
History
C18. RCAHMW records an inscription of 1773.
Exterior
Thatched cottage. Of limewashed and painted stone rubble; steep-pitched roof with end stacks. Two storeys to main unit, with single storey wing with attic to left. Two-window range of small lattice casements under painted wood lintels to both wings. Central doorway, a porch created by the thatch roof extending forward in a notable nose-shape; boarded door. Small forward extension to front right. Rear of main range is not limewashed.
Interior
Interior retains open fireplace with stairs beside, chamfered unblackened cross-beams and exposed joists.
Reason for designation
Listed as an C18 cottage retaining its historic fabric including a thatched roof.
Nearby in the register
- Doghill Moated Site, DyffrynMoated Siteunder 1 mi
- Vine Walk and KiosksGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Fountain to South of Dyffryn HouseGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Fountain to South of Dyffryn House(partly in St Nicholas and Bonvilston Community)Gardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.