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St. Dogmaels, Pembrokeshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in St Dogmaels, Pembrokeshire, designated on 14 April 1992.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 14 April 1992
- Locality
- St Dogmaels
- Community
- St. Dogmaels
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.07639, -4.67423
- Cadw reference
- 10555
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1637 · Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 193 Cardigan (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Situated prominently on crest of hill some 0.75km south east of St Dogmaels.
History
Circa 1810, altered.
Exterior
Pebbledashed with slate pyramid roof and apex banded stone stack. Basement and 2 storeys. Flat eaves with paired brackets. Three-window north front with later C19 plate glass sashes, slate sills, and centre door reached by flight of slate steps, rebuilt in C20. C20 door and overlight but original doorcase in modified classical style, 2 unfluted Greek Doric half columns, triglyph frieze and big oversailing cornice. Basement lights each side. Two-window west wall with 1991 conservatory. South east lower 2-storey rear wing.
Reason for designation
Built for Sir Watkin Lewis, Lord Mayor of London, before 1810 and possibly altered for Captain George Bowen, first coxswain of the Cardigan lifeboat 1848.
Nearby in the register
- The Old SchoolEducationunder 1 mi
- Old School CottageDomesticunder 1 mi
- The Vicarage StablesDomesticunder 1 mi
- Wall attached to rear of Vicarage stables and running to N of VicarageDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.