GHF-E106-R52 — Glamorgan Archives email, 11 June 2026

Record status: retrospectively catalogued on 10 October 2026 from the details supplied for the Glamorgan Archives email of 11 June 2026. The original email and its attachments have not been added to this page in this update. The entry is therefore a reliable research index to the reported disclosure, not a substitute for checking the original message, catalogue descriptions and any associated plans.

1. DXJF/64/30 — Corbett Family papers

Reported archive description: “Llandough [juxta-Penarth] sketch of former layout of part of village by Mrs. Nancy Buckler of Great House Farm, Llandough, with notes (c. 1945–1955).”

What it supports: the archive catalogue reportedly associates Nancy Buckler, Great House Farm and Llandough-juxta-Penarth with a dated village-layout sketch. This is meaningful archival corroboration of that person/place association during approximately 1945–1955.

Limit: the catalogue description alone does not prove uninterrupted occupation, a particular tenancy, freehold title or legal “manorial recognition”. Those remain separate propositions to be tested against title documents, tenancy records and other family and institutional evidence.

2. DSA/6/1158 — Stephenson & Alexander sale particulars, 15 November 1938

Reported disclosure: particulars for “Great House Farm, Llandough”, dated 15 November 1938. The email summary supplied for this entry identifies D.J. Jenkins as owner and reports a sale for £5,500 to L.D. Thomas of Porthcawl.

Status: location and transaction identity unresolved. The reference and reported sale details should be retained as a research lead, but the underlying particulars and plan must be examined before assigning this transaction to Great House Farm / Tŷ Mawr at Llandough-juxta-Penarth. Similar place and farm names occur elsewhere. The reported Jenkins-to-Thomas transaction must not be merged with, or treated as proof of, the separate Bute-to-Western Ground Rents reversionary transaction described in the 1938–39 tenancy record.

If the particulars do relate to the Penarth farm, the reported owner and purchaser raise a material question against the presently reconstructed chain and require reconciliation from the primary document, sale plan, parish, acreage, vendor and conveyance. Until then, they are not proof of a title transition for Parcel A or Parcel B.

3. D696 — Western Ground Rents Ltd, c. 1938–1944

Reported disclosure: Glamorgan Archives confirmed a three-volume D696 collection dated approximately 1938–1944 and recommended cross-searching “Western Ground Rents” with “Thomas” for possible agreements involving Daniel Thomas.

What it supports: this gives a specific archival search route into WGR/Thomas material from the period around the 1938 dealings. It does not establish that a particular agreement exists, that it relates to the Penarth property, or that it altered the legal extent of either parcel.

Current project control: D696 remains BACKGROUND / PARKED under the current D696 evidence-lead page. Reopen it only if a concrete item or catalogue lead connects it to Parcel A, the woodland, land now comprising VG41, the 1955 taking, a boundary change or a relevant WGR ownership statement. This June email does not itself establish such a connection. See D696 — Western Ground Rents Rental Books & Plan Book and R24 — later Glamorgan Archives correspondence.

4. Planning and architectural-record gap

Reported disclosure: Glamorgan Archives said there were no plans listed for Great House Farm and that no plans had been deposited by Vale of Glamorgan Borough Council or its successor authority in the holdings searched.

Finding: this is evidence of an archival/catalogue gap at Glamorgan Archives. It helps explain why the surviving record assembled for the building relies on other sources, including the RCAHMW 1974 survey and later heritage and planning material.

Limit: it does not prove that plans never existed, that no plans are held by another institution, or that demolition was unlawful. The scope of the archive search and the location of any council-held, transferred or privately held plans remain separate questions.

Disclosure matrix: source wording versus inference

Reference	Reported disclosure	Research status	What it does not establish by itself
DXJF/64/30	Nancy Buckler of Great House Farm associated with a Llandough [juxta-Penarth] village sketch, c. 1945–1955.	Archival corroboration of the person/place association.	Continuous occupation, tenancy or title.
DSA/6/1158	1938 sale particulars; reported owner D.J. Jenkins, sale to L.D. Thomas for £5,500.	Location and transaction identity unresolved.	That the sale concerned the Penarth property or altered its title.
D696	Three volumes, c. 1938–1944; archive suggested a WGR + Thomas cross-search.	Specific archival search lead; D696 remains parked unless a direct property link emerges.	Existence or legal effect of a particular WGR/Thomas agreement.
Planning records	No Great House Farm plans listed and no Vale/successor-authority plans deposited in the archive material searched.	Archival record gap.	That no plans ever existed or that demolition was unlawful.

Cross-links: FOI & Public-Authority Reply Register · Records Access Chronology · Sources and Archives · 1938–39: Sale to WGR and the Revised Tenancy · Great House Farm — Name & Location Variations · Source Conflicts Register