Record

EV ID	EV-0216
Title	Contract for sale of the Llandough school site, 1965: special condition F (root of title, conveyance on sale dated 25 December 1938)
Date of document	1965 (plan dated 2 May 1962)
Type	contract for sale (Law Society Conditions of Sale) with plan
Evidence label	PRIMARY DOCUMENT (copy held)
Repository / reference	Vale of Glamorgan Council, FOI 00211027 reply to Sion Buckler, 14 Sep 2026 (attachment “1965 Contract”, 6 phone photos).
Status	HELD — copy in Sion’s email; not yet mirrored to the media library.
Provenance	Read 18 Oct 2026 (research cycle 10). Page 3 particulars partly legible; the Wales Gas Board easement date is on a rider.
Related evidence	EV-0042 (the 1965 conveyance); GHF-E121 (1938 Bute–WGR conveyance)

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Quotation: “F. Title shall be deduced, and shall commence, as follows:- with a Conveyance on sale dated 25th December 1938”.

Proves: A conveyance on sale dated 25 December 1938 was the root of title offered for this Llandough land in 1965.

Does not prove: Its parties, its parcels, or whether it included or excluded the Great House farmhouse and land (Parcel A); any irregularity. 25 December is the Christmas quarter day, and press reports put completion of the Bute/Mountjoy–WGR sale on 23 Dec 1938: an ordinary conveyancing date.

Files in the wayback archive: 1965-00-00_vale-foi-00211027_contract-for-sale-llandough-school-site.pdf (EV-0216 in the artifact index).