Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Menai, including Garden Walls, Gates & Railings
St. David's and the Cathedral Close, Pembrokeshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 26 August 1981
- Community
- St. David's and the Cathedral Close
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.88132, -5.26565
- Cadw reference
- 12577
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 at W end of N side of square, on corner of Nun Street.
Exterior
Mid C19 substantial detached house in rusticated, unpainted stucco over rubble stone roof of small green slates with modern dormer and large stone end stacks. Two-storey, three-window front with 12 pane sashes above in narrow moulded architraves and with moulded sill course and bracketted sills. Ground floor has fine pedimented doorcase with fluted Doric half-columns, C20 6-panel door and original traceried overlight; panelled reveals. To right, 12-pane sash in full moulded architrave with cornice on consoles. To left C19 shop window of three lights, one narrower, possibly formerly a door; rounded heads with coloured glass and glazing bars. Fascia and cornice between ornate brackets. Roughcast end walls.
Front garden: enclosed by dwarf stone wall with slate coping and spearhead iron railings. Similar gate. Yard to W enclosed by high rubble wall curved to Nun Street. Stone gate piers with acorn finials. To rear L-plan range of single storey outbuildings.
Reason for designation
Not marked on 1840 Tithe Map.
Group value.
Nearby in the register
- 6 Nun StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 8 Nun StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 10 Nun StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- Roach FountainCommemorativeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.