Qualla: Court Farm, Pembrey https://qualla.com/court-farm-pembrey en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:13 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/h/y/court-farm-pembrey-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Court Farm, Pembrey https://qualla.com/court-farm-pembrey Court Farm, Pembrey: Introduction https://qualla.com/court-farm-pembrey/ Photo credit Nigel Davies, CC BY-SA 2.0. Ship captains coming into the Burry Inlet in the 17th century kept their eyes on two landmarks above Pembrey: the squat tower of St Illtud's Church, and the bulk of Court Farm rising beside it on the slope. The chart-makers marked both. Together they gave mariners a sight line to negotiate one of the most treacherous coasts in south Wales - the same shore that earned the name Cefn Sidan, Silken Back, for its long pale sands, and that wrecked enough ships to keep wreckers, lifeboats and lawyers busy for the next three centuries. Court Farm is a ruin now. Its roof gone, its walls overgrown, its medieval core still standing because the masons in the 16th century built better than they needed to.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/h/y/court-farm-pembrey-wp/gchy-court-farm-pembrey-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Court Farm, Pembrey: The Tax Dodger's House https://qualla.com/court-farm-pembrey/ Photo credit No machine-readable author provided. Vouliagmeni assumed (based on copyright claims)., Public domain. The present farmhouse is 16th century with an earlier medieval core - possibly originally a tower house, an architectural style more common in Pembrokeshire than here. The walls are local sandstone from a quarry on the manor's own land, Garreg Llwyd. A line of corbels runs along ...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/h/y/court-farm-pembrey-wp/gchy-court-farm-pembrey-the-butler-family.mp3 0:06 3 full Court Farm, Pembrey: The Embattled Barn https://qualla.com/court-farm-pembrey/ Photo credit No machine-readable author provided. Vouliagmeni assumed (based on copyright claims)., Public domain. Next to the house stands an unusual large barn with an embattled parapet on its south elevation - a defensive military feature on what should be an agricultural building. Whether it was actually defensive nobody can now say. It may have been part of a more extensive curtain wall,...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/h/y/court-farm-pembrey-wp/gchy-court-farm-pembrey-the-embattled-barn.mp3 0:06 4 full Court Farm, Pembrey: The Long Argument Over Demolition https://qualla.com/court-farm-pembrey/ Photo credit No machine-readable author provided. Vouliagmeni assumed (based on copyright claims)., Public domain. Court Farm was abandoned around 1948. One room still kept its Jacobean panelling when the door closed for the last time; that panelling is presumably long gone. In 1984 an application to demolish the building was lodged, and refused the following year on the strength of a council...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/h/y/court-farm-pembrey-wp/gchy-court-farm-pembrey-the-long-argument-over-demolition.mp3 0:06 5 full Court Farm, Pembrey: Reasonably Plumb and Stable https://qualla.com/court-farm-pembrey/ Photo credit No machine-readable author provided. Vouliagmeni assumed (based on copyright claims)., Public domain. A fresh feasibility study was commissioned in 2003 by the architectural firm Davies Sutton, who had successfully restored Sker House, a building of similar character on the Glamorgan coast. Their structural engineers, Mann Williams of Cardiff, inspected the walls in February 2003...

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