Former coach-house and stables at Wenvoe Castle is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of Glamorgan local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 10 October 2002. Stable.
Former coach-house and stables at Wenvoe Castle
- WRENN ID
- night-alcove-river
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 10 October 2002
- Type
- Stable
- OS grid reference
- ST 119 713
- Coordinates
- 51.43421, -3.26779
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The former coach-house and stables at Wenvoe Castle date to the 18th century and form a quadrangular stable yard with buildings on three sides, and a hillside terrace on the fourth. The buildings are constructed of coursed dressed stone with ashlar dressings, and have mainly artificial slate roofs with modillion eaves. A main entrance is positioned on the downhill eastern side, featuring a central rectangular tower with a wide, high carriage arch. The tower has a shallow-pitched pyramidal roof with a modillion eaves cornice, surmounted by a leaded clock tower. The clock faces are set within arched recesses, and the tower is open at the top, with a bell-shaped roof and weathervane. All original glazing has been replaced with UPVC.
The outer frontage consists of a long, near-symmetrical two-storey range with slightly projecting bays at each end and in the centre. Each bay, except the centre, has a three-window range. The upper level has small, wide, rectangular openings with sills under a modillion eaves cornice. The ground floor, below a moulded string-course, has tall rectangular windows and a tall, round-arched opening at the right end. A tall centre archway reaches just below eaves level and is topped with a keystone and impost band, flanked by similar flanking windows on each floor. The frontage includes a shallow plinth.
The inner face of the main entrance frontage also projects and incorporates a blind oculus flanked by blind or blocked rectangular windows to the upper level. Below is a tall carriage arch with voussoirs and a keystone, an impost band running continuously. Loft openings are small and wide. There are arches to each side, wider on the right but altered, with a blocked tympanum, and tall flanking ground floor windows to each arch.
The left range has a projecting, pedimented central entrance bay with a blind oculus. The carriage arch has a part-glazed head and double boarded doors, with imposts and a keystone. Upper openings are horizontally aligned. The section to the left on the ground floor has an archway with a semi-circular head, flanked by rectangular windows. This is similar to the section on the right, though the segmental-headed arch is lower. Windows flank the central carriage arch. The range has been extended at the end to form a shop at upper level.
The right range mirrors the left and features similar arches with cambered heads. The central high arch is now the entrance to a club, and includes modern coloured glass inset into the pediment oculus.
The terrace range, built as a revetment wall to the bank, has a series of segmental, round or basket-arched alcoves set into the slope, some of which are blind, blocked or altered. A double flight of steps flanks the central projecting section, leading to the higher parkland.
The interior has been converted to golf-club use, but some original features remain, including roof trusses, stable floors, and plasterwork.
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