Swanbridge House, Sully, Vale of Glamorgan

Entry Name: Swanbridge House

Listing Date: 25 September 2002

Last Amended: 25 September 2002

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 26974

Building Class: Domestic

ID on this website: 300026974

Location: Directly facing the sea, separated from it only by a narrow lane; within a garden bounded at front by a wall with cast iron railings,gates and iron gatepiers.

County: Vale of Glamorgan

Community: Sully and Lavernock (Sili a Larnog)

Community: Sully

Locality: Swanbridge

Traditional County: Glamorgan

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History

Probably early C19 in present form. Formerly a farmhouse on the Bute Estate. Adjacent to the site of now demolished Sully House, of the Sully estate, where Evan Thomas, the owner and agricultural improver lived in early C19: the division between the parishes of Sully and Lavernock, which includes Swanbridge, is between the two. Swanbridge had a slipway and there are records of shipping operating in the area from C16. Kelp was prepared by burning seaweed in pits - 1 ton of kelp from 20 tons of seaweed - and exported. Other exports were local plants, including sea-holly, sent to Bristol for medicines. Main exports in C17 and C18 were cheese, butter, wool, woollen goods and livestock. Coastal trade declined at end of C18 with closure of ferry between Sully and Uphill on the other side of the Bristol Channel. On the slopes to rear (now off the Lavernock Road) The Bute Estate later and until 1920 experimented in viticulture and established a 5 acre (2 hectare) vineyard, the grapes processed in Cardiff Castle Gardens. The map of 1845 shows the house with a long cross range front left and a further 2 buildings and wall to right; First edition OS map shows further ranges to left. Well to rear. The porch was re-erected here from an old house elsewhere.

Exterior

Double-fronted detached Georgian house. Of mainly unrendered rubble with dressed stone dressings; slate roof with tall and narrow brick corniced stacks. Windows are sashes under slightly cambered voussoirs within painted reveals; 3 12-pane to top floor and two 16-pane either side of gabled porch which has a stone plinth, wooden braces forming an arched entrance, deep bargeboards and boarded door; plain fanlight.

Interior

Interior retains shutters, 6 panelled doors, basket arches. Fireplaces replaced.

Reasons for Listing

Listed as a Georgian house retaining its character in an outstanding seaside position.

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II Nicells
At the northern end of Swanbridge Road at the junction with Cog Road and Sully Road, on the western side overlooking the complex of Cog Farm.
II Barn at Home Farm
On the hillside just E of the junction of Sully Road, Cog Road and Swanbridge Road, near the enclosed farmyard and reached by a track.
II Cog House
Forming the E range of the farm complex set back behind wall with iron railings, just W of the T-junction with Swanbridge Road and Sully Road, NE of Sully village.
II Planned group of farmyard buildings at Cog Farm
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II Eight rickstands to N side of Cog Farm
Cog Farm lies to W of the T-junction in Cog, N of Sully Village; the rickstands are situated at the NE edge of the former rickyard bordering the fields and to the rear of the farmyard buildings which
II Original house at Lower Cosmeston Farm
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Swanbridge House

A Grade II Listed Building in Sully, Vale of Glamorgan

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