Allt-y-Gawrddu, Ruins

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NPRN17968
Map ReferenceST08SE
Grid ReferenceST0561080860
Unitary (Local) AuthorityRhondda Cynon Taff
Old CountyGlamorgan
CommunityLlantrisant
Type Of Site
PeriodMedieval
Description
NAR ST08SE7
1. Ruins, supposedly of St Cawrdaf's monastery, but actually a courtyard house of three units with a cross wing at each end. Much as described in the Inventory.
Note: Inventory plan north point in error by 90 degrees.
DKL 1989
2. Robbed and ruinous remains of a medieval houses, consisting of three wings set about a central courtyard, c.20m N-S by 22m overall.
Apparently described as no longer in use by the 1530s.
(source RCAHMW 1982, 155-7)
J.Wiles 30.01.03

See entry MH14 in Glamorgan Inventory, Vol III: II, Medieval and Non-defensive Secular Monuments, pp. 155-157.
L. Moore, RCAHMW, 31st October 2012