What is recorded here

Old Castle Upon Alun (1) stands in the Vale of Glamorgan as a Post Medieval house, not a grand castle at all. The name may be a joke, a mistake or a proud local exaggeration, but the house itself is real. It is the kind of place where a small building becomes large in memory because people kept repeating its name until the name shaped the stone.

The National Monuments Record of Wales records Old Castle Upon Alun (1) as House from the Post Medieval period. The saved point comes from the official national record. Inclusion does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.

Old Castle Upon Alun was a medieval structure, likely built in the 13th or 14th century, and may have been held by local gentry or minor nobility. It is remembered for its historical presence in the Alun Valley and as an example of lesser-known domestic or defensive architecture in Wales.

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