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Dunraven Castle, St Brides Major

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NPRN18581
Map ReferenceSS87SE
Grid ReferenceSS8878072810
Unitary (Local) AuthorityThe Vale of Glamorgan
Old CountyGlamorgan
CommunitySt Bride's Major (The Vale of Glamorgan)
PeriodPost Medieval
Description
Dunraven Castle was a castellated mansion, built from around 1800 onwards and demolished in 1962. It was on the site of an earlier mansion, described as a 'manor place' in the 1530s, but referred to as a castle in about 1580. It is set upon the ramparts of a promontory fort (nprn 300161).

Sources: Lloyd 1986 'the Lost Houses of Wales', 92; RCAHMW 1981 Glamorgan I.1, 337 [56]; 2000 Glamorgan III.1b, 482-8.

Associated with: Park/gardens (nprn 265800); Ice House (nprn 23073); Summer House (nprn 506776); Lodge (nprn 308223);
Rabbit warren/s (nprns 24502, 24503).

J.Wiles, RCAHMW, 25 October 2004.