Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Cleals
Fishguard and Goodwick, Pembrokeshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 24 November 1978
- Locality
- Lower Town
- Town
- Fishguard
- Community
- Fishguard and Goodwick
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.99372, -4.96584
- Cadw reference
- 12258
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1608 "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Situated gable-ended to the street, some 120m before the gates of Plas Glyn-y-Mel.
History
Early to mid C19 detatched house with Gothic detail, presumably an estate building of Plas Glyn-y-mel. Building shown on this site on 1844 tithe map. Marked on OS as Glynymel Lodge. John Cleal, artist, founded Workshop Wales gallery nearby c1970, and had new art gallery built 1992.
Exterior
Detached house, stone rubble, with slate roof (renewed since 1978), stone bellcote at left end and small brick stack to right. Two-storey, 2-window range, upper floor with 2 small 6-pane pointed windows and 2 similar, though longer, windows on ground floor, with pointed doorway at left with ledged door, with 4 panes in upper part. All openings with stone rubble voussoirs. Left gable end wall has attached remains of entrance piers to grounds of Plas Glyn-y-Mel, a single rubble stone pier with narrow slate roof lean-to section to rear. House end wall has small window at mezzanine height, and bellcote with single bell. Added slate-roofed, stone rubble rear wing perpendicular to main house, with lower slate-roofed C20 conservatory added on to end of this wing.
Interior
Not available for inspection at time of resurvey. Previous listing noted that ground floor ceiling was apparently a later insertion.
Reason for designation
Included as an unusual earlier C19 Gothic estate building.
Nearby in the register
- Glyn-y-Mel Cottage (Cwm Cwsgi)Domesticunder 1 mi
- 20 Glyn-y-Mel RoadDomesticunder 1 mi
- 22 Glyn-y-Mel RoadDomesticunder 1 mi
- 23 Glyn-y-Mel RoadDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.