1988: listing considered, building lost

In the summer of 1988 Cadw surveyed the farm buildings. In December, days before the demolition, it was reported to be considering asking the Secretary of State to protect the house. The house was demolished on 6 December 1988. The record of the heritage side of that year follows; the eviction itself is in Recorded Incidents.

29 July 1988 — A Cadw survey photograph of the barn

Record:

EV-0094 (Legal Wiki, Evidence Register)

What the record shows. A photograph of the barn dated 29 July 1988, disclosed by Cadw on 11 June 2026, places the farm buildings in Cadw’s survey trail that summer.

What it does not show. The image is not reproduced here; its provenance and what assessment followed are not shown by it.

3 December 1988 — “History fight to save farm”

Record:

EV-0103 (Legal Wiki, Evidence Register)

“Officials from the Welsh historic monuments body, Cadw, confirmed today they are considering an appeal to ask the Secretary of State for Wales to protect Great House Farm, Llandough, near Cardiff, as a listed building.”

What the record shows. Three days before the demolition, the South Wales Echo reported that Cadw was considering asking the Secretary of State for Wales to protect Great House Farm as a listed building.

What it does not show. It reports that listing was being considered, not a decision.

undated — The Glamorgan Village Book

Record:

EV-0085 (Legal Wiki, Evidence Register)

What the record shows. A printed page of the Glamorgan Village Book records that Great House Farm was demolished on the night of 6 December 1988.

What it does not show. The book’s author and date of publication are not stated on the page.

March 1989 — The Sites and Monuments Record card

Record:

EV-0118 (Legal Wiki, Evidence Register)

“building destroyed by owners”

What the record shows. The county Sites and Monuments Record card PRN 02038s, compiled in March 1989, records the building in four words.

What it does not show. Compiled after the demolition; it makes no legal finding.

1988 survey; 6 April 1989 — The Llandough listing resurvey

Record:

EV-0272 (Legal Wiki, Evidence Register)

13431: “Original list description of 1989”. Designation dates: 13430 and 13431, 06/04/1989; 13432, 04/06/1989.

What the record shows. Cadw’s list for the Llandough community, from the 1988 resurvey, was issued on 6 April 1989 (the church on 4 June 1989), four months after the farmhouse was gone.

What it does not show. The list does not include the farmhouse, which no longer stood.

12 October 1988 — A comparison: Lower Farmhouse, Rhoose

Record:

EV-0268 (Legal Wiki, Evidence Register)

“Included as a little altered early C19 farmhouse having group value with the adjoining cottage”; “Interior not available at resurvey”.

What the record shows. Seven weeks before the eviction, Cadw listed Lower Farmhouse, Rhoose, an early-nineteenth-century Vale farmhouse, without access to its interior.

What it does not show. A comparison only; it tells us nothing about Great House Farm itself.