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Tudor Cottage

A Grade II Listed Building in Porthcawl, Bridgend

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.4845 / 51°29'4"N

Longitude: -3.6813 / 3°40'52"W

OS Eastings: 283351

OS Northings: 177512

OS Grid: SS833775

Mapcode National: GBR H8.KLQN

Mapcode Global: VH5HH.4YPC

Plus Code: 9C3RF8M9+QF

Entry Name: Tudor Cottage

Listing Date: 28 September 1989

Last Amended: 17 February 1998

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 11361

Building Class: Domestic

ID on this website: 300011361

Location: At the W end of old village, close to The Globe Inn and almost opposite number 22, the thatched house, also listed. Set back behind narrow rubble walled forecourt.

County: Bridgend

Town: Porthcawl

Community: Porthcawl

Community: Porthcawl

Locality: Newton

Built-Up Area: Porthcawl

Traditional County: Glamorgan

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History

Early C17 sub medieval regional house enlarged to left possibly in early C19. Originally a two unit gable entry plan but doorway moved to present position, roof raised and outshut refurbished during enlargement. Replaced roof. Bordering old road linking the two medieval settlements of Newton and Nottage. Referred to as the Priest's House in deeds of 1610.

Exterior

Built of rubble with painted freestone dressings; Welsh slate roof with rendered end stacks plus one over the original gable end above present entrance. Two storeys, 4 window range of square headed windows. To right, original house, 3 windows have two lights and one on ground floor has 3, all with sunk chamfered mullions, hoodmould and stops; replaced diamond quarry glazing. To left, the C19 extension, has on each floor one single and one double light window with unmoulded surrounds and mullions and higher hoodmoulds. Centre left stone porch has timber gable and decoratively panelled door. Rubble wall to front retains stone stile across entrance with small step to one corner and modern iron gate over. Rear extension.

Interior

No access to interior but previous list description records original separate hall and parlour, right of the later entrance, now combined. Ceiling has broad chamfered beams; hall fireplace has plain timber chamfered bressummer supported on dressed stone chamfered and stopped jambs; brick domed bake-oven to right; further small fireplace to former parlour to right. Stone stair right of main fireplace and built within projecting curved bay, has Tudor-arched chamfered doorway across angle, cross slab roof. Retains four-centred arched doorways, dressed stone fireplaces and stop chamfered beams. Original gable end entrance left was adjacent to main hall fireplace with winding stone stairs over bake oven on other side of stack.

Reasons for Listing

Included as a sub medieval house with a substantial part of its original structure and fenestration intact and with a sympathetic C19 extension; group value with 22 Newton Nottage Road, the thatched house, almost opposite.

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Other nearby listed buildings

  • II 22, Newton Nottage Road, Newton, Porthcawl, MID GLAMORGAN, CF36 5PF
    At the W end of the old village, set back from the road behind rubble walled front garden, detached to right; almost opposite Tudor Cottage, also listed.
  • II Crown House
    Facing the Village Green in the centre of Newton Village.
  • II The Old School
    Opposite the Village Green and church and churchyard of St John the Baptist, at the foot of Clevis Hill which rises steeply to the rear.
  • I Church of St John the Baptist
    In the centre of the old village of Newton with two sides of the rectangular churchyard fronting the village green; main access at WSW.
  • II Churchyard Cross
    In the churchyard near the S porch of the Church of St John the Baptist.
  • II St John's Well aka Sandford's or de Sanford's Well
    On the SE edge of the Village Green, S of St John's churchyard as the road slopes down to the sea and to the site of former port of Newton.
  • II Manor Farmhouse
    At the foot of Newton Down, a little N of Newton village, surrounded by conifers and reached by a track off the main road.
  • II Manor Farm Courtyard Farm Range
    Situated close to the farmhouse on the other side of the drive, at the foot of Newton Down.

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