RUPERRA CASTLE;RHIWPERRA
Site Details
- NPRN
- 19900
- Map Reference
- ST28NW
- Grid Reference
- ST2197686311
- Unitary (Local) Authority
- Caerphilly
- Old County
- Glamorgan
- Community
- Rudry
- Type of Site
- MANSION
- Broad Class
- Domestic
- Period
- Post Medieval
Site Description
Cadw SAM No.=GM379
NAR ST28NW14
1. An early renaissance house dating probably from 1626. Now roofless, having been burnt out, and the SE quadrant of the SE tower has now fallen away.
Each front of this cube with rounded corner towers is symmetrical or nearly so. Fire, followed by rebuilding, has obscured much of the original plan which, however, retained the hall and screens passage. The whole house is built on a basement which contains the kitchen and service rooms. The basement became a feature of a large number of late renaissance houses. The surviving detail shows a mixture of late Gothic windows (probably conciously archaic as befitted a mock castle) and early Renaissance Classical detail in the porch and some doorways.
DKL 1999
2. 19th century mid/late 'Tudor'mansion. Burnt 1942. Roofless shell. Square plan. Battlemented. Circular angle turrets. Stone mullions.
NMR Index Cards
3. See RCAHMW 1981, 262-8;
NAR ST28NW14.
Associated with
Park/gardens (Nprn265743).
RCAHMW AP965105/50-51
