Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
3 Castle Hill
St. Fagans, Cardiff, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 28 January 1963
- Locality
- St Fagans
- Town
- Cardiff
- Community
- St. Fagans
- Unitary authority
- Cardiff
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.48590, -3.26865
- Cadw reference
- 82218
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
One of a group of estate buildings clustered below St Fagans Castle.
History
Of uncertain origin, possibly late medieval, but drastically modernised in the 1850s and again in the mid/late C20 probably c1970. C18 to C19 features (now mostly replaced) but with indications of an earlier original structure, possibly contemporary with the C16 castle above. There is a chamfered stone doorway with pointed head of C16 style in eastern ground floor wall of No 4. The rear walls of the original structure remain but rear wings with slate roofs were added circa mid to later C19. These cottages were built originally by the Plymouth Estate (St. Fagans Castle) which has probably given them three major refurbishments, in the mid C18, in c1855 and in c1970 and they now have characteristics of all these periods.
Interior
Interior not inspected at resurvey.
Reason for designation
Included as a part of the important group of historic estate buildings at the centre of St. Fagans village.
Nearby in the register
- 4 Castle HillDomesticunder 1 mi
- 2 Castle HillDomesticunder 1 mi
- Front Garden Walls of Nos 1-4 (consec)Domesticunder 1 mi
- 1 Castle HillDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.