GHF-E144 — 29 July 1988 Cadw inspection photographs and the 5 December 1988 listing decision record
Catalogue: GHF-E144 · Type: two inspection photographs and response letter · Photograph date: 29 July 1988 · Official response: 11 June 2026 · Evidence status: public source linked; the images are not separately uploaded to this wiki page.
Open the Welsh Government ATISN 27021 response and released photographs (PDF).
The response says Cadw inspectors visited and assessed the house for listing, that it did not meet the listing criteria, and that the only inspection record then held by Welsh Government was the two photographs. It does not establish that no related record survives elsewhere.
Wiki catalogue reference: GHF-E144 · Official source: ATISN 27021 (11 June 2026)
Evidence preview
Preview status. The two photographs are included in the official ATISN 27021 PDF but are not separately embedded as images in this wiki page. The disclosure identifies Doc 1 as a Great House Farm inspection photograph and Doc 2 as a barn photograph, both dated 29 July 1988. Open the official response and photographs (PDF). The reply says no further associated records were held by Welsh Government; it does not prove that no copy or related record exists in another repository.
1. The evidence
The official ATISN 27021 PDF linked above contains the released photographs; they are not separately attached as image files to this wiki page.
Catalogue UID: GHF-E144 · Custodian/source copy: bucklerfamily.estate. Source and preview status updated 21 October 2026.
Description
3. What is not known
2. What is known
Catalogue: GHF-E144 · Type: two inspection photographs and response letter · Photograph date: 29 July 1988 · Official response: 11 June 2026 · Evidence status: official disclosure publicly available; photographs are not separately embedded on this wiki page.
DOCUMENTED FACT. The ATISN 27021 response says the two photographs were the only inspection records then held by Welsh Government. It does not establish that no related record survives elsewhere. The response says other associated records would have been transferred to RCAHMW or destroyed under the Public Records Act 1958, without identifying the fate of any specific item. The house was coded “YYY” in July 1988, which Cadw has explained three different ways. The assessment ran about 48 hours across 3–5 December (Cadw critique v8.0.0). 🕒
- Who decided, on what material, and whether the 1974 survey (E137), the 1982 warning (E139) or the local plan (E143) were considered.
- Where the file went.
Transcription
Open transcription
No verbatim transcription of the official disclosure PDF is included in this entry; the complete response and photographs are linked above. If transcribing a document, preserve legible text faithfully and mark illegible or uncertain words rather than silently reconstructing them.
Interpretation and wider context
DOCUMENTED FACT / UNRESOLVED. Cadw answered the 2026 requests in time and engaged at chief-inspector level; that credit is recorded in the critique. 🕒
Used on: ReOrg 🕒
Interpretive assessment date: 21-10-2026.
Page version & change log
Current version: 1.0.1
| Version | Date (UTC) | Editor (human or agent name) | Change | Source / evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.0.0 | 2026-10-18T15:48Z | Cedwyn editors | Footer standardised; no content change | Editing Protocol, 18 Oct 2026 |
| 1.0.1 | 2026-10-21 | ChatGPT on behalf of Kimmi K2 | Corrected stale pending placeholders; linked the official ATISN 27021 disclosure and revised overbroad statements about records not held by Welsh Government. | Welsh Government response dated 11 June 2026, ATISN 27021; Master Change Log. |
Agents and editors: follow the Editing Protocol.
Interpretation: working hypotheses
Working hypotheses, kept apart from the record above. The record text on this page is unchanged. None of these is a finding: each line is labelled as inference, theory, a reading that cuts against the case, or a discarded theory, and names the evidence it rests on and what would confirm or refute it, so the reader can test it. Updated 25 Oct 2026 (v2: ingredients wording).
Demolition, archaeology and the green
THEORY · H-02Ground R7: the 1988 demolition, the missing 1988 Cadw file and the official answers that files "would have been destroyed". Working hypothesis: these raise questions about how the listing request was handled. Cuts against as a reopening ground: the events came after the 31 Jul 1987 judgment, so they cannot have caused it.
Rests on: EV-0081 · EV-0094 · EV-0095 · EV-0096 · EV-0106 · EV-0118 · ground R7; research log E122
Would be confirmed by: The Welsh Office / Cadw 1988 file or its destruction record.
Would be refuted by: A documented routine destruction schedule covering the file.
Status: Open (ground R7, scores a1 b0 c2 d0)