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Entrance range to stable yard at St Brides Castle
Marloes and St. Brides, Pembrokeshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 29 October 1979
- Locality
- St Brides
- Town
- Haverfordwest
- Community
- Marloes and St. Brides
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.75127, -5.19466
- Cadw reference
- 13016
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 on S side of service yard at St Brides Castle opposite entrance arch.
History
Earlier C19 forebuilding to stable court, in similar Tudor style to 1833 mansion but not marked on 1839 Tithe Map.
Exterior
Entrance range to stable court. Rubble stone probably originally roughcast, with slate roofs and red brick end stacks. Tall, 2-storey with advanced 3-storey narrow gabled centrepiece with 1906 copper ridge cupola. Five bays, the centre with chamfered brick-arched Tudor entry. Band above and upper floors in large rectangular panel with brick-framed first floor casement pair and brick-framed roundel in square recess above, sill band below roundel. Gable above is plain. Wings have similar band carried across wall piers. Sunk long panels to ground floor, 3 with inserted late C20 casement pairs low down. First floor has similar square sunk panels, outer two with casement pair windows. All panels are chamfered. Rear is mostly roughcast except ground floor centre and left. Centre similar Tudor arch to throughway, and Tudor arch to coach-house left, not chamfered. Band across and first floor wall-piers between 4-pane sashes in chamfered surrounds. Centre has similar big sunk panel with 4-pane sash each floor and sill band under upper window, plain gable. The cupola has battered base, open horseshoe-arched sides and domed roof with vane.The single-storey stable court beyond is listed separately for the E outer wall which groups with the main house.
Reason for designation
A large earlier C19 courtyard range of group value with St Brides' castle.
Nearby in the register
- E range of stable yard at St Brides CastleDomesticunder 1 mi
- St Brides CastleHealth and Welfareunder 1 mi
- East wall of Kitchen Garden, St Brides CastleGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Castle Head Defended EnclosurePromontory Fort - coastalunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.