EV-0013 — Bute conveyance of 23 February 1905 referred to on the WA231076 file
| EV ID | EV-0013 |
|---|---|
| Title | Bute conveyance of 23 February 1905 referred to on the WA231076 file |
| Date of document | 23 February 1905 |
| Type | deed |
| Evidence label | PRIMARY DOCUMENT — NOT PUBLISHED HERE |
| Repository / reference | HM Land Registry, WA231076 title file (document referred to at first registration). |
| Status | PENDING — Order an official copy of the referred document from HM Land Registry (form OC2), about £11; Sion as applicant. |
| Provenance | Known only as an entry on the WA231076 register / first-registration schedule. |
| Claims that rely on this | Land Registry Titles, Master Timeline, New Archival Leads — Bute Archive List, 1793 Manor Deeds, Tŷ Mawr Plans and 1983, Press and Archive Leads — October 2026, Start Here — Great House Farm (Tŷ Mawr), The Bute Estate, Three-part Parcel A: chronology, order scope and later title transfers |
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Proves: Nothing yet beyond its listing: the HMLR file refers to a conveyance dated 23 Feb 1905.
Does not prove: Its parties, land and terms are unknown. Whether it is the link between Lord Colum’s 1900 inheritance and the later Bute/Mountjoy title is untested.
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).
The 1924 drain agreement lead
INFERENCE · D-01The 15 May 1924 Bute–J. P. S. Corbett drain agreement is entered on the woodland title WA735527 as the only charge not limited to a plan colour, so it is registered against the whole title, including land that came through the 1975 conveyance; it no longer appears on the residual farm title WA231076 (record, register views). Glamorgan Archives DSA/12/4232 records a sale "Lord Bute to Miss O.S. Corbett" of a plot opposite O.S. 60, with correspondence of 6–22 Mar 1924, two months earlier. Working hypothesis: Bute was still dealing with this land as owner in 1924. That the May drain serves the March plot is an inference, not shown; O.S. 60 is a field on the south-east edge of the village, not the farmhouse plot (O.S. 36).
Rests on: EV-0015 · EV-0169 · EV-0170 · research log E119, E128 (DSA/12/4232)
Would be confirmed by: The 1924 agreement and its plan (HM Land Registry WA231076 item 2; Glamorgan Archives DSA/12/4232) showing the drain's route across or beside the house parcel.
Would be refuted by: A plan placing the drain wholly away from the house parcel, or a Registry note that the entry was carried over without a plan for clerical reasons.
Status: Open lead
Title chain and registration
THEORY · R-01Ground R5: the court's starting point — a Feb 1916 tenancy of "the whole of the farm" and BP's "paper title to the farm" — would fail for the farmhouse if the 1938 Bute → Western Ground Rents conveyance did not include it. The 1905 Bute conveyance and the 1924 drain agreement show Bute dealing with land here, so either the house came back to the main estate by a deed not yet seen, or the 1916 recital is loose.
Rests on: EV-0013 (this page) · EV-0014 · EV-0015 · EV-0019 · EV-0022 · EV-0023 · EV-0216 · EV-0045 · ground R5
Would be confirmed by: The 1938 conveyance plan showing the house parcel excluded.
Would be refuted by: The 1938 plan including it. Cuts against: paper title was not in issue in 1987 (E26), and the NLW 33-acre limeworks bundle (1876–1912) fits a letting that ended in 1912 rather than a sale (E43).
Status: Open (ground R5, scores a1 b3 c2 d1)
Cited on
28 pages link here.
- EV-0014 — Bute yearly agricultural tenancy to John Williams, with plan
- EV-0019 — Bute Estate to Western Ground Rents Ltd conveyance of reversion, with plan
- EV-0020 — Western Ground Rents rental books and plan book (D696), c.1938–1944
- EV-0022 — Press reports of completion of Bute (Mountjoy) sale of Cardiff ground rents to Western Ground Rents
- EV-0023 — DBDT123/7 — 1939 agreement, Western Ground Rents to John Williams, with plan
- EV-0024 — Glamorgan Archives D1777/1: post-1938 Bute/Mountjoy estate-office maps
- EV-0045 — Abstract of Title, 1971 (BP Pension Trust) — lodged with the 1982–83 first registrations, per HM Land Registry; contents not held
- EV-0216 — 1965 contract, condition F: root of title “a Conveyance on sale dated 25th December 1938”
- EV-0278 — NLW Bute estate records: Llandough manor rentals 1808–1881 (R 6/27–45) and presentments 1793–1934 (M 17/110–314) (catalogue entries; not seen)
- EV-0291 — NLW Bute Estate Records catalogue: D153/1–8 (Llandough: “land (33 a.), formerly part of Great House Farm, for the Llandough Limeworks”, 1876–1912) set beside the Pwllypant estate files D242, D247 and D258 (Eglwysilan)
- EV-0608 — Twelve-year pairs stacked from a common start, with 26 numbered event notes (analysis, 25 Oct 2026) — Cedwyn Research Library
- EV-0609 — Parcel-by-parcel table: 21 takings of Cedwyn / Tŷ Mawr land, with the event before each and its gap (analysis, 25 Oct 2026) — Cedwyn Research Library
- EV-0618 — Press, 1904–05: Cardiff’s Western Sewer Sub-committee completes the conveyance of the pumping-station site and sewer easements from the representatives of Lord Bute (Evening Express 23 Mar 1905; Weekly Mail 11 Jun 1904) — Cedwyn Research Library
- EV-0627 — Cardiff Corporation at Cedwyn, 1905–1989: one corporate body for the 1905 and 1961 rights; dealings with Western Ground Rents 1938–47; no Cardiff role found in the 1989 planning file — Cedwyn Research Library
- Evidence Register
- Pending Evidence
- Wayback artifact index
- Archive: Configuration Item Records · The Project Office
- D696 — Western Ground Rents Rental Books & Plan Book — Litigation Evidence Lead
- DBDT123/7 — 1939 WGR–John Williams Tenancy Agreement + Plan
- GHF-E118 — February 1916 Bute yearly tenancy to John Williams, with plan
- GHF-E121 — 1938 Bute–Western Ground Rents conveyance and plan
- GHF-E132 — 1971 abstract of title (BP Pension Trust)
- MR-0036 Bute conveyance of 23 February 1905 referred to on the WA231076 file — Research Library
- Three-part Parcel A: chronology, order scope and later title transfers
- Title chain · Tŷ Mawr
- Title chain · Tŷ Mawr
- Title chain · Tŷ Mawr