Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Cotham Lodge
Newport, Pembrokeshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Newport, Pembrokeshire, designated on 14 April 1992.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 14 April 1992
- Community
- Newport
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.01556, -4.83792
- Cadw reference
- 12519
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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)
- 1891 · Sheet 10. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. . (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 210 Cardigan (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 210 Cardigan (Outline) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Detached house situated in own grounds at W edge of town.
Exterior
Mid C19 small country house, whitewashed roughcast rubble stone with red plain tile roof and whitewashed stone end stacks. Two storey and attic,
3-window N front with hornless 12-pane sashes above and 2 large canted bay windows under tent-roofed verandah. Left bay is narrower, 8-12-8-panes, right bay 8-16-8-panes, with one of the side-lights being a door. Internal evidence of a former central door. 5-bay verandah is on slate-paved rubble base, octagonal timber posts with big cusped braces up to eaves with fretted timber eaves boards. East end wall has 12-pane sash to each floor and attic. W end wall has round arched doorway with 6-panel door and radiating bar fanlight. Ground and first floor have to left, narrow late C19 8-pane sashes. Central 12-pane attic sash. Big two-and-a-half storey rear wing to centre of rear wall, with one-window range each side: to left of wing, a French window with 12-pane sash over, to right, a 12-pane hornless sash with C20 triple casement above.
Rear wing has big arched stairlight on E side, in angle, and 12-pane sash to first floor left. Ground floor door in angle (later lean-to demolished 1990). S end is whitewashed rubble stone with end stack and 2 attic windows. W side has two 12-pane sashes above, one and a pair below, all of varied sizes.
Interior
Interior ground floor NW and NE room have mid to later C19 plaster cornices. NE room has ca1800 coloured marble fireplace, not original to house. Dog-leg stair with stick balusters.
Reason for designation
Said to have been a dower house of the Bowen family of Llwyngwair.
Nearby in the register
- Roadside Wall at Cotham LodgeDomesticunder 1 mi
- Gatepiers at Cotham LodgeDomesticunder 1 mi
- Medieval Pottery Kiln, Newport Memorial HallPottery Kilnunder 1 mi
- Abertawe House, including back cottageDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.