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Candleston Castle

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NPRN93050
Map ReferenceSS87NE
Grid ReferenceSS8712077250
Unitary (Local) AuthorityBridgend
Old CountyGlamorgan
CommunityMerthyr Mawr
PeriodPost Medieval
Description
NAR SS87NE33

Ruins of a two storey range, including a first-floor hall and solar tower define the E side of a "D" shaped enclosure, c.40m ENE-WSW by 26m, otherwise defined by a stone curtain wall.
A further enclosure, c.44m by 30m, on the NE may be associated with the castle.
Fabric dated to the e. 14th c, possibly on the site of an earlier enclosure, in-use as an elite dwelling and consequently modified, until at least 1808. Served as a farmhouse until the l.19th c.

Source: RCAHMW 2000 Glamorgan III.1b 'the Later Castles', 408-17.

J.Wiles 04.12.02