NAR SS77NE3

The grange or monastic estate, at Sker originally belonged to Margam Abbey, but passed to Neath Abbey in the twelfth century. In 1291 it was assessed at four carucates or ploughlands and twenty acres of arable. The grange was leased out by the later fifteenth century and was sold at the dissolution. The present great mansion (NPRN 19972) was built on the remains of the buildings in the later sixteenth century.
The main grange buildings appear to have been laid out around a walled court on the west side of the present house, which is itself based on a medieval range. The south gable of the barn range to the east contains medieval fabric.

Source: RCAHMW Glamorgan Inventory III.2 (1982), 254-5 [MG9]

John Wiles 14.02.08