Barons Court

Heritage listing

Reason for designation: Listed as an important late-medieval hall-house remodelled and extended in C19 and modernised again in C20. History: Formerly known as Cogan Pill. Late C15 or early C16 hall house. Mentioned in the will of Matthew Craddock of Swansea in 1531, owner recorded shortly after as Sir George Herbert. His younger son William, who was sherriff in 1552 and 1567 reputedly enlarged the house. It remained in the Herbert family, who also held St Fagans Castle, for some generations, later becoming a farmhouse. Restored and remodelled c 1850 by H S Corbett, relative and agent of the Marquess of Bute, as a house for himself. Herbert Arms above the front porch. Probably mid C16 rear wing. Mid C19 parallel W wing. Exterior: Former Manor House, a late medieval hall house, now a public house. Built mostly of coursed rubble; porch and left frontage are rendered. Welsh slate roofs, narrow stone ridge and end stacks with tall decorative terracotta pots. Windows are mullioned with four-centred lights and square hoodmoulds, many of C19 and painted. 2 storeys. Main range has two-storeyed gabled porch off centre with 2-light first floor window, mid C16 Herbert coat of arms below and 4-centred arched ground floor doorway. Hall to right (E) has a 4-light window and low cambered-arched now unused doorway. E gable end wall has a wide buttress with offset and bands with similar first floor window. To left (W) of porch and with a separate roof from hall is the former service range with two 2-light windows to first floor, also on gable end, and deep ground floor single storey C19 bay with castellated parapet and 4-light window. Main W elevation is the stepped back C19 gabled wing with three 2-light windows to first floor; gabled porch with pointed-arched doorway flanked by segment

From Cadw under OGL v3.