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Full Record - Castell Caereinion, Ty-mawr
| Location | Castell Caereinion, Ty-mawr, Montgomeryshire |
|---|---|
| Grid reference | SJ 172 043 |
| Description | Ty-mawr, Castell Caereinion, is an exceptionally fine hall dated to 1460 (Miles, 1996b). It is of five bays containing five aisled trusses and one base-cruck truss, with the spere-truss fearuring octagonal arcade posts with embattlemented tops. It is situated on a steeply-slopingsite, with the normal downhill siting, and stands on an artificial platform of hardpacked clay containing small stones. The hall lies in the centre of the building, flanked to its south by a two-storeyed bay of considerable size, and to its north by a smaller bay. A large timber-framed chimney was subsequently inserted into the upper end of the hall, and the existing floor in the north bay replaced a medieval floor a little later than this, probably at some date in the sixteenth century. A substantial rebuilding of the house followed, perhaps in the later seventeenth century: the aisles were narrowed and new side walls constructed. A makeshift partition was built across the spere-truss to divide the house proper from the lower end, and at this time or later a floor was built across the hall to provide additional accommodation. In the nineteenth century the entrance side of the house-end was re-built in brick, for the sake of its appearance (Borne and Dixon, 1981). The house is now in a ruinous condition and is soon to undergo a major restoration programme by Cadw. The object of the dendrochronology was to date the primary phase, thus enabling the proposed reconstruction to be carried out in the light of all available evidence. Plan and description: Smith (1975 and 1988, chapter VI and figs. 45-6). The dendrochronology· was commissioned by Mr Richard Avent, Chief Inspector of Ancient Monuments, Cadw. |
| Type of Building | Hall |
| Type of Structure | Aisled; Base cruck; octagonal arcade posts |
| DATES | |
| Type of date | Tree-ring (ring width) date. |
| Felling Date Range | 1458 - 1460 |
| Period | Medieval |
| Century | 15 |
| Date | 1458-60 |
| IDENTIFIERS | |
| VA Volume No. | 27 |
| VA Page No. | 107 |
| List sequence id | 781 |
| Laboratory | Oxford Dendrochronology Laboratory (and predecessors) |
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