page_title: Pencoed Castle
section_title: Buildings
hierarchical_section_title: Pencoed Castle / Buildings
caption_attribution_description: A view of the ruins of Pencoed Castle, showing the gatehouse.
context_page_description: Pencoed Castle is a ruined Tudor mansion, largely dating from the 16th century, in the parish of Llanmartin, now within the city of Newport, south Wales. It is located about 0.5 miles east of Llanmartin village, and 0.5 miles south-east of Llandevaud, at the end of a farm lane.
context_section_description: According to Newman, "the large and imposing Tudor mansion languishes as an unconsolidated ruin in a farmyard.  To come upon it at the end of an inconsequential lane is quite a shock."  
  The tower is the earliest part of the building; it is built of Old Red Sandstone and is largely intact.  The gatehouse is entirely of Tudor origin, and "on a much grander scale".  It is rectangular in plan, of three storeys, with square turrets.  The main range is largely intact, rising to three storeys and constructed of ashlar stone, similar to that of Raglan Castle, built around the same time.  It has a battlemented parapet. The great hall has a central three-storey porch, with a two storey range on the south side and a three-storey building on the north side. There is also a three-storey northern parlour wing, which originally housed kitchens, and the remains of a south wing.
  The interior of the building is entirely ruined, apart from the rooms rebuilt for Lord Rhondda, and largely unsurveyed.  Close to the house are the ruins of a 16th-century dovecote.  There is also a continuous range of stone-built barns, probably of the 16th and 17th centuries.  
  Pencoed Castle was given Grade II* listed building status on 3 March 1952.  The ruins are not open to the public.
caption: The west front of Pencoed Castle, depicted in 1865
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