Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
High Roost
Mathry, Pembrokeshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 29 April 1993
- Community
- Mathry
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.94644, -5.08868
- Cadw reference
- 12939
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 walled grounds NW of village centre, on S side of road to Abercastle.
History
1827-30 former vicarage by William Owen of Haverfordwest. The 1826 plan and elevation showing house with similar plan, dining-room to left with kitchen behind, drawing room to right with study behind, dairy in rear lean-to and brewhouse beyond kitchen. Elevation shows smaller 6-pane upper windows, 12-pane below and arched not half-oval fanlight. The cost was £518/3/9.
Exterior
Whitewashed roughcast with hipped slate roof. Two-storey three-window range of sashes, 12-pane above, 16-pane below and centre door with arched head. Added flat-roofed enclosed porch with door and traceried overlight. Original doorway has half-oval traceried fanlight and half-glazed door. W side has blank roughcast wall to left and slate-hung wall to right with one 12-pane window each floor. Lean-to on S end wall. Rear has been built out and SE rear wing has been extended.
Interior
Stair with stick balusters and ramped rail. Stair hall is lit by small glazed lantern. Plain plaster cornice in ground floor left room, C19 cornice in right-hand room and early C19-style timber fireplace surround. 6-panel doors.
Nearby in the register
- Outbuilding to E.of High RoostDomesticunder 1 mi
- Telephone Call-box at the General StoresCommunicationsunder 1 mi
- Two Pre-Norman Gravestones in ChurchyardCross-marked stoneunder 1 mi
- Churchyard Wall at Church of the Holy MartyrsReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.