EV-0096 — Cadw inspection photographs, 29 July 1988, and December 1988 listing decision record

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EV IDEV-0096
TitleCadw inspection photographs, 29 July 1988, and December 1988 listing decision record
Date of document29 July 1988; 3–5 December 1988
Typephoto
Evidence labelPRIMARY DOCUMENT — OFFICIAL PUBLIC DISCLOSURE LINKED
Repository / referenceWelsh Government, response dated 11 June 2026, ATISN 27021. The response and two photographs are public in the official PDF.
StatusPUBLIC DISCLOSURE AVAILABLE — the official PDF includes the response letter and two photographs dated 29 July 1988. The PDF is linked above; separate image files are not embedded on this wiki page.
ProvenanceSource: Welsh Government ATISN 27021 response, 11 June 2026 (official public PDF). The photographs are accessible in that PDF; this page does not claim a separate local image copy.
Wiki catalogue pageGHF-E144
Claims that rely on thisCadw — Forensic Assessment v8.0.0 (full text), Evidence Library, Institutional Involvement Roadmap — Chronology of Actors, Decisions and Evidence, RCAHMW — Forensic Assessment, Welsh Government — Forensic Assessment, GHF-E152 — Cadw letter to the Minister concerning spot-listing, 1988 (awaited or

Establishes: The 11 June 2026 Welsh Government 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. The official PDF includes a farmhouse photograph and a barn photograph, both dated 29 July 1988. Read the official response and photographs (PDF). Does not establish: that no related file survives elsewhere, the identity of every decision-maker, a full rationale beyond the brief response, or the specific transfer or destruction history of any associated record.

Does not prove: The disclosure does not establish that no file survives outside Welsh Government. It says other associated records may have been transferred to RCAHMW for permanent preservation or destroyed under the Public Records Act 1958, but does not identify specific records or confirm which route applied to each item. Whether records E137, E139 or E143 were considered remains unknown. The meaning of the July 1988 “YYY” code remains unresolved.

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 (this page) · 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)

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