Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Y Post/The Old Post Office
St. David's and the Cathedral Close, Pembrokeshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 28 July 1992
- Locality
- Caerfarchell
- Community
- St. David's and the Cathedral Close
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.89766, -5.20647
- Cadw reference
- 12670
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 in centre of village facing E over green.
Exterior
Early C19 house, front altered late C19 or early C20, rubble stone with roughcast front and raised cement dressings. Grouted slate roof with purple stone end stacks. Slate-hung S end wall. Two-storey three-window front, plate glass sashes above, tripartite sashes below and centre 4-panel door with traceried overlight. N end former Post Office with whitewashed rubble front, door-window-door plus large window, all with cambered brick heads and brick jambs. Monopitch roof. House front garden is enclosed by roughcast low walls. Post-box, monogrammed E VII between house and former post office.
Reason for designation
Marked on 1840 Tithe Map.
Prominently sited facing over green, group value with other listed buildings in Caerfarchell.
Nearby in the register
- Capel Caerfarchell & Outbuilding to NE corner of ForecourtReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Caer Farchell Farmhouse, including rear court with seatDomesticunder 1 mi
- Outbuilding to rear of Caerfarchell FarmhouseAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- The Manse, including Pigsty attached at N.EndDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.