clay_9
Member
- Joined
- Mar 14, 2010
- Messages
- 22
- Reaction score
- 66
I took these pictures around 2004/2005, can't quite remember. They've been laying on my hdd collecting dust, so I thought I'd share them here.
Info taken from wikipedia and this site
Aberpergwm House is an abandoned and ruinous house located in Glynneath, Wales. Within the grounds of the house sits the church of St. Cadoc, which is possibly of late medieval origin.
The present house is a remodelling of an older house known as Neuadd Pergwm. The house came into the ownership of the Williamses of Blaen Baglan in around 1560. It is said that Oliver Cromwell was related, and so the house was saved from pillage during the English Civil War. The Williams family were one of the few Welsh gentry families to remain faithful to the Welsh language.
By 1850, the house was ‘playfully crenellated’ with a central pediment”. In 1876, the house was remodelled by Morgan Stuart Williams, who later went on to restore St Donat's Castle. This ‘overwhelmed’ the work of 1850, and included the addition of a new front range dominated by a ‘remarkable top heavy Elizabethan gallery across the whole front’ of 94 feet. The gallery was added in the spirit of the ancient Glamorgan halls, such as Llantrithyd Place. A further castellated wing was added along the hill. In 1868, Williams had rejected earlier plans by John Norton for a new house in Gothic style with a tower. Williams, by rejecting Norton’s Victorian High Gothic appeared to be playing safe. An elaborate central door surround (now missing)could be a 17th century Jacobean survival, or may be a convincing replica. The house is built of Pennant Sandstone with Bath stone dressings.
The former East Anglian School at Gorleston-on-Sea was evacuated to the house during the summer of 1940 and for the rest of the Second World War the house was used as a school. After the War it was leased to the National Coal Board and used as offices; the surrounding park land was mined for coal. At some time the house finally suffered a disastrous fire, and was not rebuilt. The Elizabethan gallery on the third storey has since collapsed leaving a seven-bay front of two storeys, with a small part surviving of the third. Some of the medieval tracery from the original house has since been reincorporated into Penhow Castle.
======
Pics of the house in its prime:
My pics. There really is hardly anything left.
Apparently it's recently / currently undergone conservation work to preserve what's left. The current wikipedia pic can be found here
I'm planning on heading back there soon to find out whats been happening.
Info taken from wikipedia and this site
Aberpergwm House is an abandoned and ruinous house located in Glynneath, Wales. Within the grounds of the house sits the church of St. Cadoc, which is possibly of late medieval origin.
The present house is a remodelling of an older house known as Neuadd Pergwm. The house came into the ownership of the Williamses of Blaen Baglan in around 1560. It is said that Oliver Cromwell was related, and so the house was saved from pillage during the English Civil War. The Williams family were one of the few Welsh gentry families to remain faithful to the Welsh language.
By 1850, the house was ‘playfully crenellated’ with a central pediment”. In 1876, the house was remodelled by Morgan Stuart Williams, who later went on to restore St Donat's Castle. This ‘overwhelmed’ the work of 1850, and included the addition of a new front range dominated by a ‘remarkable top heavy Elizabethan gallery across the whole front’ of 94 feet. The gallery was added in the spirit of the ancient Glamorgan halls, such as Llantrithyd Place. A further castellated wing was added along the hill. In 1868, Williams had rejected earlier plans by John Norton for a new house in Gothic style with a tower. Williams, by rejecting Norton’s Victorian High Gothic appeared to be playing safe. An elaborate central door surround (now missing)could be a 17th century Jacobean survival, or may be a convincing replica. The house is built of Pennant Sandstone with Bath stone dressings.
The former East Anglian School at Gorleston-on-Sea was evacuated to the house during the summer of 1940 and for the rest of the Second World War the house was used as a school. After the War it was leased to the National Coal Board and used as offices; the surrounding park land was mined for coal. At some time the house finally suffered a disastrous fire, and was not rebuilt. The Elizabethan gallery on the third storey has since collapsed leaving a seven-bay front of two storeys, with a small part surviving of the third. Some of the medieval tracery from the original house has since been reincorporated into Penhow Castle.
======
Pics of the house in its prime:
My pics. There really is hardly anything left.
Apparently it's recently / currently undergone conservation work to preserve what's left. The current wikipedia pic can be found here
I'm planning on heading back there soon to find out whats been happening.