DUNRAVEN CASTLE
Site Details
- NPRN
- 18581
- Map Reference
- SS87SE
- Grid Reference
- SS88787281
- Unitary (Local) Authority
- The Vale of Glamorgan
- Old County
- Glamorgan
- Community
- St Brides Major (The Vale of Glamorgan)
- Type of Site
- MANSION
- Broad Class
- Domestic
- Period
- Post Medieval
Site Description
NAR SS87SE4
A castellated mansion, built from c.1800 onwards, demolished 1962, on site of earlier mansion, described as a 'manor place' in the 1530's, but referred to as a castle, c.1580.
Set upon the ramparts of a promontory fort (Nrn300161).
Sources: Lloyd 1986 'the Lost Houses of Wales', 92;
RCAHMW 1981 Glamorgan I.1, 337 [56];
2000 Glamorgan III.1b, 482-8.
Associated with:
Park/gardens (Nprn265800)
Rabbit warren/s (Nprn's24502, 24503).
J.Wiles 25.10.04
