Ty Mawr (The Great House)
Information
Grade II*
Date listed 26/07/1963
Date amended 20/01/1998
Nat Grid ref 287 17978
Location:
On the main village thoroughfare a short distance south west of the Church of St David.
History:
North range late C16, South range early C17; C17 service wing extending West beside road from earlier North range further enlarged to South late C20. Repaired and converted to hotel 1980’s with further extensions; photographs prior to conversion show casement and sash https://bestradios.co.uk/buy-kamagra-uk/ windows with cambered heads as well as C16-17 mullioned windows, though all windows are now mullioned. Site formally held as part of the Manor of Laleston by Margam Abbey and acquired by Sir Rice Mansel after Dissolution.
Listed:
Listed 11* as an important survival of a larger early post medieval house.
Reference:
Newman J, Glamorgan, Buildings of Wales, 1995, p 370.
RCAHM Wales, Glamorgan Inventory, vol IV part 1, The Greater Houses 1981 pp 187-191.