The new owner of a 16th Century manor house which was home to the South Wales Fire and Rescue Service’s headquarters for 50 years has unveiled his vision for the site. Edwards Investments
The stunning Lanelay Hall in Talbot Green was vacated by the fire service in 2007 and now David Edwards, of Talbot Green-based company Edwards Investments, wants to convert the manor house into three executive semi-detached homes, with Victorian designs sympathetic to the building’s history and culture.
Talbot Green's most significant building is Lanelay Hall, until recently the headquarters of the South Wales Fire and Rescue Service, who moved just over two miles away
Lanelay Hall lies on the western outskirts of the important and fast expanding community of Talbot Green. Junction 34 of the M4 Motorway is within 3 miles, and Cardiff city centre lies 10 miles to the east. The popular market town of Cowbridge lies 6 miles to the south, and the town of Bridgend 10 miles to the west. Bus and train services are both within 1 mile, and Talbot Green provides a comprehensive range of local shopping facilities as well as an extensive retail park incorporating national brands such as Tesco, Marks & Spencer, Next and Boots. Primary and secondary schools are conveniently located. DESCRIPTION The site has a total area of 11.50 Acres (4.65 Hectares), and comprises the former Headquarters of the South Wales Fire and Rescue Service. The original house stands in the centre of the site, and there are a number of more modern ancillary buildings, principally to the north. The majority of the land comprises playing fields and landscaped grounds, providing an ideal setting for residential development.
In the 16th and 17th centuries, Lanelay Hall was the seat of a cadet branch of the Matthew family of Castellmynach.
Through marriage, Lanelay Hall was passed to a branch of the Bassetts of Miskin, who were descendants of Sir Phillip Bassett, Lord of St Hilary.
The last of the Bassetts - Eleanor, Ann and Joan - were known locally as the ‘Three Ladies of Lanelay’.
Described by the 19th century diarist David Jones of Wallington’s father as “oddest little women he had ever seen”, they lived at Lanelay Hall in relative seclusion until their deaths.
The ‘Ladies of Lanelay’ either sold the house, or on their death it passed to William Vaughan, an attorney, who devised and bequeathed it to John Edwards of Rheola, another lawyer and newcomer to Glamorgan, in 1829.
As was tradition, Edwards assumed the name of his benefactor to become John Edwards Vaughan. When he died, Lanelay Hall passed to his son from his second marriage to Sarah Barwise, called Nash Vaughan Edwards Vaughan.
When Nash Vaughan died childless in 1868, Lanelay Hall passed to his nephew, Major Vaughan Hanning Vaughan Lee. When the Major died, the house was bequeathed to John Edwards Vaughan, the second son of Sir Joseph Layton Elmes Spearman Bart JP and great-grandson of the previous owner.
During this period of the 19th century, much of the Hall was rebuilt in an elaborate Gothic Revival style, although the service quarters were left largely unchanged.
During the 1890s, T.J. Masters Esq., a coal speculator and later founder of the well-known firm of clothiers, occupied the Hall. A Colonel Bruce took up residence and continued to live there for some years after World War One. The Hall then became the residence of Edmund Hann Esq, who was employed by the Powell Dyffryn Company.
Lanelay Hall was acquired for the County of Glamorgan, as headquarters for its Fire Service in 1951/52. To this day it has retained its same purpose, having been the headquarters for Mid Glamorgan Fire Service and currently South Wales Fire and Rescue Service.
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