Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Stable Block of Insole Court
Llandaff, Cardiff, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 30 June 2003
- Locality
- Llandaff
- Town
- Cardiff
- Community
- Llandaff
- Unitary authority
- Cardiff
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.49275, -3.22517
- Cadw reference
- 81279
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
Part of the important group of estate buildings surrounding Insole Court.
History
Probably built in 1855 by W G & E Habershon for J H Insole, the local colliery and shipping owner. Likely to be contemporary with the first build of the house and known to be in existence by 1874.
Exterior
Constructed of squared, randomly coursed rock-faced pennant sandstone with Bath limestone ashlar dressings and quoins, Welsh slate roofs. Range of single storey stables with two storey pavilions at either end, the one on the left with tack-room and hayloft, the one on the right with coach-house. The centre section has three windows and a doorway, all with Caernarvon arched heads. To left a doorway flanked by windows and to the right coach-house doors; both pavilions have a dormer hayloft entrance. all the openings are currently blocked (April 2002). Pyramid roofs to the pavilions. The left-hand one has a tall louvred vent with steeple roof, a tall chimney stack with off-sets and a rear dormer window with sash.
Interior
Not available for inspection at resurvey.
Reason for designation
Included for group value as part of the garden and estate buildings of a significant Victorian mansion with a chequered history.
Nearby in the register
- Rock Arch at Insole CourtDomesticunder 1 mi
- Wall on rear drive at Insole CourtDomesticunder 1 mi
- Gatepiers and Wing Walls on main Carriage Drive at Insole CourtNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Insole CourtInstitutionalunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.