Great House Farm — Primary Record Register

Llandough-juxta-Penarth, Glamorgan · Register status: 19 October 2026

Title, possession and court records

Record groupReference / dateVerification questionRecord status
Historic conveyanceBute Estate / Daniel Thomas & Son, 1877What land and rights did the original instrument convey, reserve or exclude?Original instrument not located in the Glamorgan Archives search to date. D696 Bute material is a research lead, not a substitute for the deed.
Possession orderHigh Court, 1955What parcels, buildings, gardens and occupants did the sealed order cover? What plan formed part of it?Verify against the sealed order, schedules, plan, warrant and execution records. Family interpretation remains separate from the order itself.
Reported litigationBP Properties Ltd v Buckler, trial 24 July 1986; appeal [1987] EWCA Civ 2Which matters were decided, and which issues were outside the determination?Compare the judgment, pleadings, transcript, orders and appeal papers. Do not infer that every underlying title question was adjudicated.
Land registrationWA231076; WA240304; registration/amalgamation recorded 2 February 1987What applications, filed instruments, notices and plans explain each entry and the later amalgamation?Compare certified register copies, title plans, application files and underlying instruments for each title number.
Woodland registrationWA735527What is the registered extent, provenance and relationship to the other parcels?Check the current register, title plan, filed documents and any transfer instrument.
Occupation records1841 tithe; trade directories 1868–1901 (EV-0225); 1881 census RG11/5288 p.2 (EV-0224); South Wales Star 1892 (EV-0226); Cardiff Times 1904 (EV-0227)Who occupied Great House, on what terms, and which records concern the separate Llandough Farm of the Rees family (EV-0228)?Directories and press place John Williams at Great House from 1868 to 1901. The 1881 census label “Llandough Home Farm” appears in no other source; the Legal Wiki identifies it as Great House Farm. Folio and enumeration district SOURCE PENDING. The 1904 report describes a tenancy taken over in 1855, not ownership.
Press report: water supplyWestern Mail, 20 November 1958, p.7 (snippet only, EV-0037)When, by whom and on what authority was the water cut off?Reports Mrs Buckler’s statement that the water was cut off “for nearly 10 years by order of Western Ground Rents”. Conflicts with a c.1988 date (wiki SC-48). Full article and any 1948–58 papers still to be obtained.
Excluded (not our farm)1878 Thomas Williams agreement, Ynysawdre near Bridgend (EV-0234)Does it concern Great House?No. It concerns Ynysawdre near Bridgend and is listed in the wiki’s Kissed Frogs register.

Planning, heritage and demolition records

Record groupReference / dateVerification questionRecord status
Heritage recordGGAT HER GGAT02038s; NPRN 20182What does each record say about the farmstead, location, use and demolition?Match the HER record to the mapped site at Llandough-juxta-Penarth. Do not conflate it with the separate 1978–80 Roman villa/farm excavation south of the church.
Measured surveyRCAHMW, H. J. Thomas survey, 26 April 1974What do the original survey notes, photographs and plans establish?Link the original survey record and each plan or image individually.
Listing correspondenceCadw ATISN27021; correspondence dated 5 December 1988What assessment, advice, decision and contemporaneous records were made or retained?The disclosure is reported to include two photographs. Confirm separately whether the assessment and demolition records exist or were searched for.
Planning permission89/01396/OUT, granted 13 March 1990; 92/00671/RESWhat approved plans, conditions and reserved-matters documents define the permitted development?Compare the complete application files, decision notices, approved plans and condition discharge records.

Each entry should link to the originating document, identify its custodian and date, and distinguish the wording of the source from any later interpretation. An absent record, an unlocated deed and a refusal to disclose information are different evidential states.

Small print: dotted links explain a word (see the glossary); amber-shaded links list every name the records use for the same thing.