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Cartref Restaurant

St. David's and the Cathedral Close, Pembrokeshire, Wales

A Grade II listed building in St. David's and the Cathedral Close, Pembrokeshire, designated on 26 August 1981.

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1913) covering the location of Cartref Restaurant, St. David's and the Cathedral Close, Pembrokeshire, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1913), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Designation
Listed building, Grade II
Broad class
Commercial
Date of designation
26 August 1981
Community
St. David's and the Cathedral Close
Unitary authority
Pembrokeshire
Country
Wales
Coordinates
51.88109, -5.26629
Cadw reference
12582

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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)
  • 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1637 · Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1898 · 209 St David's (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1901 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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Cadw's description

Prominently sited on W side of square facing The Cross and down High Street.

C18 and later C19, two houses now one restaurant premises.

No 22: to west is C18 (dated 1778 on corner stone to right) colourwashed rubble stone with grouted slate roof and large stone end stacks. One and a half storeys, three-window range with central door under timber lintel and 12-pane sash with rough slate lintel and slate sill each side. Attic has late C19 or early C20 eaves-breaking 12-pane sashes in timber gabled dormers. Rear outshut built up in C20. Old photographs shown no dormers but three narrow lights under eaves.

No 23: later C19, colourwashed render with raised cement dressings, an early C20 alteration as old photographs show rubble stone front with cambered brick window heads. Grouted slate roof with stone stack to left and rendered stack to right. Two storeys, three-window range of 12-pane sashes in raised surrounds and similar surround to centre door.

Group value.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Designated Historic Asset GIS Data, The Welsh Historic Environment Service (Cadw), 2026-09-07, licensed under the Open Government Licence http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/ Cadw, the Welsh Historic Environment Service · Open Government Licence v3.0
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