Court Colman Manor

There are records that the building could date back to Tudor times because in 1914 the local historian T. M Price described an old Tudor Gate which was at the end of a walled garden (now demolished) near the house bearing the date 1638 which he said was “direct evidence that the house which H. Rees erected in 1766 was on or near the site of a previous older house of 1638.” Price also stated that he thought that a wall of the West wing of the present house was part of this original Tudor house. The Thomas family of Llanmigangel is thought to have erected the original 1638 mansion as it is known that about this time they had connections with the Court Colman estate. Also the original Tudor…

William Llewellyn (1773–1840) was born in 1773. His father was Hopkin Llewellyn of Brombil Margam. William became a surgeon in the Royal Navy and served with Vice Admiral Cuthbert Collingwood, at his personal request. In 1805 he was wounded and he left the Navy and established a medical practice in Taibach in Wales. In 1818 he married Catherine Place, daughter of Thomas Dumayne Place of Glyn Leiros, Neath. William purchased Court Colman in 1837, but did not live there as he died before the legal complications had been resolved. His son William inherited the property on his death 1840 and moved in the following year with his mother Catherine, until her death in 1848. William Llewellyn…