Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
8 Nun Street
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.
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
- 51.88149, -5.26568
- Cadw reference
- 12624
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)
- 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)
Cadw's description
Location
Terrace row at S end of New St, the first houses from Cross Square.
Exterior
Later C19 row of four houses in rubble stone, formerly with grouted slate roofs replaced in imitation slate on all but No 12 since 1981, and three stone stacks. Two storeys, each house of two windows, 9-pane sashes above and one 12-pane below and door. Red brick cambered heads. Houses were built as two pairs, straight joint between Nos 8 and 10, each pair with close-set doors and windows above. Modern doors. No 12 has ground floor sash replaced by modern tripartite 4-12-4-pane sash under concrete lintel. Purple stone quoins to NW angle.
Reason for designation
Not marked on 1840 Tithe Map.
Group value.
Nearby in the register
- 6 Nun StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 10 Nun StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 12 Nun StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- Glendower including front garden wall & railingsDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.