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Latitude: 51.7437 / 51°44'37"N
Longitude: -3.6425 / 3°38'32"W
OS Eastings: 286698
OS Northings: 206279
OS Grid: SN866062
Mapcode National: GBR H9.1BJ6
Mapcode Global: VH5GB.TF7M
Plus Code: 9C3RP9V5+F2
Entry Name: Aberpergwm House
Listing Date: 19 September 1969
Last Amended: 30 January 2004
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 11769
Building Class: Domestic
ID on this website: 300011769
Location: On the W side of Glynneath, reached by a drive NW off the B4242.
County: Neath Port Talbot
Town: Neath
Community: Glynneath (Glyn-nedd)
Community: Glynneath
Locality: Aberpergwm
Built-Up Area: Glyn-neath
Traditional County: Glamorgan
Tagged with: Country house
Ruins of a large mansion of possibly medieval to C19 date, abandoned in later C20. Neuadd Pergwm was celebrated by bards in the C15-16, and was owned from c. 1560 by the Williams family formerly of Blaen Baglan. The house had a central pediment and crenellations in the mid C19 before large additions were made in 1876 for M. S. Williams who added a new front range with neo-Elizabethan detail and long gallery on top floor. Leased to the National Coal Board who mined in the park, abandoned and derelict, the roofs and upper floor collapsed.
Ruins of a large mansion, abandoned and derelict, the roofs and upper floor collapsed. Windows with painted surround on 2 levels of ruined facade with hoodmoulds to ground floor. Chimneys to N end.
Not inspected.
Included as the ruins of an important South Wales gentry house.
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