Llansannor Court is a Grade I listed building in

Llansannor Llansannor () is a small hamlet in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom. It has a population of roughly 200 people. It contains a parish church, a pub (the City Inn, now closed), a primary school and a village hall, which has recently been ...

, near

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in the

Vale of Glamorgan The Vale of Glamorgan ( ), locally referred to as ''The Vale'', is a Principal areas of Wales, county borough in the South East Wales, south-east of Wales. It borders Bridgend County Borough to the west, Cardiff to the east, Rhondda Cynon Taf t ...

, south Wales. It became a Grade I listed building on 16 December 1952. It is believed to have been built during the

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. The walls are of rubble and the roof is slate. The house has two storeys in some places and three in others, is L-shaped, and has stone

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ed windows. During the 18th century it was owned by the politician

Francis Gwyn Francis Gwyn Privy Council of Ireland, PC (1648 – 14 June 1734), of Llansannor Court, was a Welsh Tory politician who sat in the English House of Commons, English and British House of Commons, British Houses of Commons at various times between ...

, who inherited it from his father, Edward Gwyn. On Francis's death it passed to his son, Edward Prideaux Gwyn. Although the fabric of the house is mostly of the 16th and 17th centuries, it was enlarged and refurbished during the Georgian period. However, when the last member of the Gwyn family died in 1846, the entire contents of the house were sold to a wealthy merchant who used only five rooms, allowing the rest of the house to deteriorate. It subsequently passed through several generations of the Roper family, who helped restore the house and gardens. Within the grounds of Llansannor Court is the local parish church, the

Church of St Senwyr St Senwyr's Church is a Grade I listed church in Llansannor, in the Vale of Glamorgan, south Wales. It became a Grade I listed building on 22 February 1963. It is believed that the first record of the church was in 1180 as "Sanctae Senwarae de la ...

, the only one in Wales dedicated to this particular saint. The house has been used as a filming location for many television programmes, including multiple episodes of ''

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'', such as "

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", " Tooth and Claw" and "

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". A community organisation called LAMBS ("Llansannor Ancient and Modern Buildings and Settlements") was formed in 1999 in order to plan for the millennium and support local heritage.

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