Lidmore Explained

Country:Wales
Official Name:Lidmore
Coordinates:51.4244°N -3.3065°W
Static Image:Lidmore Farm, nr Dyffryn, Vale of Glamorgan - geograph.org.uk - 959448.jpg
Static Image Width:250px
Static Image Caption:Lidmore Farm
Unitary Wales:Vale of Glamorgan
Lieutenancy Wales:South Glamorgan
Constituency Welsh Assembly:Vale of Glamorgan
Constituency Westminster:Vale of Glamorgan
Post Town:BARRY
Postcode District:CF62
Postcode Area:CF

Lidmore or Lydmore is a small hamlet and farm in the Vale of Glamorgan. It is located just off the A4226 road, to the northwest of Highlight Park in Barry, Vale of Glamorgan and in close proximity to Brynhill Golf Club. To the north is Great Hamston and Dyffryn and the hamlet is accessed through another hamlet called Northcliff from the main road.[1] To the southwest is Lidmore Wood and the Welsh Hawking Centre.

Landmarks

The main landmark is the Lidmore Farm, an early 18th-century Grade II listed building.[2] It is a "two-storey, whitewashed rubble stone farmhouse" with a "Welsh slate roof with four corniced brick ridges and end stacks. There are two wings, the narrower downhill and set back at each elevation. The main frontage faces the garden and this has a three-window range of sashes to the left main unit: two to the left (plus one smaller to ground floor) and one to the right of a gabled porch which is of rock-faced stone with brick dressings, including moulded brick cambered arch, flag floor and boarded door."[3] Refurbished in the 19th century, Lidmore Farmhouse became a listed building on 10 October 2002.[3]

Several of the former farm buildings along the lane near the farmhouse which were shown on the Tithe Map of 1842 have been converted into expensive houses, the largest of which is a sprawling stone bungalow.[3] The land to southeast of the farm formerly belonged to Highlight Farm before it was purchased by Brynhill Golf Club in the mid-1990s.

Notes and References

  1. Maps. Google Maps.
  2. Web site: County Treasures:Wenvoe. Vale of Glamorgan Council. 19 April 2012.
  3. Web site: Lidmore Farmhouse. British Listed Buildings. 19 April 2012.