COALPIT HALL, Llannon 2020
Notes on COALPIT HALL, Llannon 2020
Down a short track from another ruin, Ty'r Bryn (see next set of photos), Coalpit Hall is all but hidden within the summer foliage. Coalpit feels like an old house. There are no visual clues just a sense that it has stood at this location for many years. The house stands upright and seems a little larger than most. No front door and within, each floor is covered in hardened foot deep old sheep waste. The ceilings have fallen in some rooms and upstairs is a treacherous ordeal. The staircase itself is in good condition. I took no unnecessary risks and due to the dim interior took all my images outside. Good viewpoints were scarce and I did the best I could with long 30 second to 2 minute exposures. The better viewpoints were around the rear... the back door central, two windows top and bottom and the whole house surrounded by trees. It would be a better option to photograph in the winter months but even then I doubt if the house would open up completely. An unusual name for a house and I wonder if it has some connection to a coal manager/worker?
A long barn with falling stone walls and a long corrugated roof near collapse and another outbuilding all ruinous and no longer in agricultural use. Another rural ruin visited, this one at least had a roof and you wonder how many more lay hidden and all but forgotten. How long empty? Why so well preserved considering there was no front door, hardly any glass in the windows? The house is just about visible from the c-class road but who has any reason to come this way? Has it been empty for decades and untouched by casual vandal? Does its location mean it is kept sheltered from the elements which can quicken the dereliction?
Small rear garden with outdoor Ty bach, fruit trees un-pruned and fruitless. However Coalpit is a nice house with a good aura and it does not seem impossible for it to return to a family home once again - four bedrooms upstairs but small rooms, complete repair and renovation required for this old house. Or maybe not as the case may be.
Down a short track from another ruin, Ty'r Bryn (see next set of photos), Coalpit Hall is all but hidden within the summer foliage. Coalpit feels like an old house. There are no visual clues just a sense that it has stood at this location for many years. The house stands upright and seems a little larger than most. No front door and within, each floor is covered in hardened foot deep old sheep waste. The ceilings have fallen in some rooms and upstairs is a treacherous ordeal. The staircase itself is in good condition. I took no unnecessary risks and due to the dim interior took all my images outside. Good viewpoints were scarce and I did the best I could with long 30 second to 2 minute exposures. The better viewpoints were around the rear... the back door central, two windows top and bottom and the whole house surrounded by trees. It would be a better option to photograph in the winter months but even then I doubt if the house would open up completely. An unusual name for a house and I wonder if it has some connection to a coal manager/worker?
A long barn with falling stone walls and a long corrugated roof near collapse and another outbuilding all ruinous and no longer in agricultural use. Another rural ruin visited, this one at least had a roof and you wonder how many more lay hidden and all but forgotten. How long empty? Why so well preserved considering there was no front door, hardly any glass in the windows? The house is just about visible from the c-class road but who has any reason to come this way? Has it been empty for decades and untouched by casual vandal? Does its location mean it is kept sheltered from the elements which can quicken the dereliction?
Small rear garden with outdoor Ty bach, fruit trees un-pruned and fruitless. However Coalpit is a nice house with a good aura and it does not seem impossible for it to return to a family home once again - four bedrooms upstairs but small rooms, complete repair and renovation required for this old house. Or maybe not as the case may be.
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