Talygarn Court, a mainly Victorian House (nprn 20029), is situated on elevated ground to the south-east of Pontyclun village. The house, with its surrounding estate, is largely the work of George Thomas Clark (1809-1898), a prominent industrialist and antiquary of medieval Glamorgan. The house lies centrally within grounds which were largely created after 1877, shown in their fullest form on the map of 1914. The park is essentially a small woodland park containing some rare specimen trees planted by Clark, and with extensive woodland areas on its fringes.
The park is bounded on the west by the A4222 Llantrisant to Cowbridge road, on the east and north by belts of woodland, and on the south by woodland and farmland. The house is approached from the north-west, off the A4222 where there is an entrance and lodge (404734). The drive curves southwards to the forecourt on the north front. 

House and garden are surrounded by woodland. South of the house, the ground slopes down to an artificial lake designed as a naturalistic, ornamental feature. It is elongated south-west to north-east with a small island in its southern half, dammed at its northern end, and spanned by a narrow three-arched stone bridge (23065). Woodland around the lake, and elsewhere, consists of mostly deciduous trees, with sycamore, beech and oak predominating, and with some cypresses, underplanted with rhododendrons and laurels. Paths with flights of steps run from the garden through the woodland to the southern entrance and to the lake. South of the lodge, on the western boundary, between the trees and the garden, is a bowling green and cricket ground with a wooden pavilion of 1902.

The house is immediately surrounded by gardens (see 265771 & 700154).

Sources:
Cadw 2000: Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in Wales, Glamorgan, 148-52 (ref: PGW(Gm)8(RCT)).
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, sheet: Glamorgan XLII (editions of 1877 & 1914).

RCAHMW, 12 May 2022