Weobley Castle

In the community of Llanrhidian Lower.
In the historic county of Glamorgan (Modern authority of Swansea, preserved county of West Glamorgan).

This courtyard castle of the de la Beres was raised on a virgin site in the early C14 as the caput of the newly created fee of Weobley, or Leyston. Building history from 1304, an ambitious and extensive defensive building, a hall block on the N, a strong SW tower, an E range and SE tower; between 1304 and ca.1327, a reduction of the foregoing, the SE tower and adjoining appartments being abandoned and a new solar, gatehouse range and chapel closing the site to the W and S. A late C15 phase involved enhancement of the hall entrance. The irregular form of both the originally intended, and the completed structure, suggest the desire to construct an 'ancient' castle, with a long chronology of piece-meal construction, in keeping with David de la Bere and the de Braose lords of Gower's alledgley novel creation of the 'ancient' knight's fee of Weobley. The castle fell into disuse fromC16.

This site has been described as a;
Fortified Manor House.
The confidence that this site is a medieval fortification or palace is Certain.
Major remains.

This site is a scheduled monument protected by law.
This site is a Not known if listed listed building protected by law*.

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is SS47829274

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*The listed building may no be the actual medieval building, but a building on the site of, or incorporating fragments of, the described site.