EV-0081 — Cadw letter to the responsible Minister concerning spot-listing of Great House Farm (awaited original)
| EV ID | EV-0081 |
|---|---|
| Title | Cadw letter to the responsible Minister concerning spot-listing of Great House Farm (awaited original) |
| Date of document | 1988 |
| Type | letter |
| Evidence label | PRIMARY DOCUMENT — NOT PUBLISHED HERE |
| Repository / reference | Not established. Custodian and file reference not yet verified. Bodies to test: Cadw, Welsh Office ministerial correspondence, predecessor department records, later Wales Office or Welsh Government custody; The National Archives and RCAHMW possible referral points. |
| Status | PENDING — Obtain reference or source statement first identifying the letter. Ask Cadw/Welsh Government for the 1988 listing/spot-listing file, correspondence, submissions, decision minutes, registry indexes, transfer or destruction schedule. See FOI register ATISN 27021, ATISN 27589; R42/R37/R04. |
| Provenance | No copy held. Placeholder reserving a record for a reported 1988 Cadw-to-Minister letter; Custody not established. Custodian/source link is the Buckler family evidence repository. |
| Wiki catalogue page | GHF-E152 |
| Claims that rely on this | Amgueddfa Cymru — Museum Wales — Forensic Assessment, Archaeology Data Service — Forensic Assessment, Archaeology and Heritage, Barry Preservation Society and Civic Trust — Forensic Assessment, Cadw — Forensic Assessment v8.0.0 (full text), Cardiff County Court — Forensic Assessment, Cardiff Registration Service — Forensic Assessment, Companies House — Forensic Assessment, Cotswold Archaeological Trust — Forensic Assessment, Court of Appeal — Forensic Assessment, Crown Prosecution Service — Forensic Assessment, Debenham Tewson — Forensic Assessment (+32 more) |
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Proves: Not held, so nothing yet. Reported: A 1988 Cadw letter to a Minister concerning spot-listing of Great House Farm has been reported and is being sought.
Does not prove: Letter’s existence, date, author, recipient, contents, custodian unconfirmed. Would not prove a formal listing decision, ministerial reading, changed or unlawful decision, or improper conduct.
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 (this page) · 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)
Cited on
17 pages link here.
- EV-0094 — Cadw barn survey photograph, 1988 (disclosed 11 June 2026)
- EV-0095 — Cadw farmhouse survey photograph, 29 July 1988 (disclosed 11 June 2026)
- EV-0096 — Cadw inspection photographs, 29 July 1988, and December 1988 listing decision record
- EV-0106 — Press cutting: “Tears flow as 800 year-old farm house is razed at last”
- EV-0118 — Sites and Monuments Record card PRN 02038s: “building destroyed by owners”
- EV-0268 — Cadw 13428, Lower Farmhouse, Rhoose: an early-19th-century Vale farmhouse listed on 12 October 1988 (“Interior not available at resurvey”), a comparator for the 1988 Llandough resurvey
- EV-0271 — TNA BD 34/114 (1988) and BD 34/119, /121, /123 (1989): Historic Buildings Council for Wales agenda, minutes and papers (catalogue entries)
- Evidence Register
- Pending Evidence
- Wayback artifact index
- EV-0081 — Cadw letter to the responsible Minister concerning spot-listing of Great House Farm (awaited original)
- GHF-E090-N11 — “Tears flow as 800 year-old farm house is razed at last” (c. 7 December 1988)
- GHF-E106-R37-A2 — Cadw farmhouse survey photograph dated 29 July 1988, disclosed 11 June 2026
- GHF-E106-R37-A3 — Cadw barn survey photograph dated 29 July 1988, disclosed 11 June 2026
- GHF-E144 — 29 July 1988 Cadw inspection photographs and the 5 December 1988 listing decision record
- GHF-E152 — Cadw letter to the Minister concerning spot-listing, 1988 (awaited original)
- MR-0026 1988 spot-listing assessment of the farmhouse (Welsh Office / Cadw), w — Research Library