Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Avellanau House
Merlin's Bridge, Pembrokeshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Merlin's Bridge, Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, designated on 29 October 1987.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 29 October 1987
- Locality
- Merlin's Bridge
- Town
- Haverfordwest
- Community
- Merlin's Bridge
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.78726, -4.98025
- Cadw reference
- 13042
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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)
- 1891 · Sheet 10. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. . (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 228 Haverfordwest (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Reached by a long curving driveway past Fir Tree Close; driveway entry adjoins S side of railway bridge.
History
Country house of 1845 by William Owen of Haverfordwest for William Evans, solicitor, of Haverfordwest. It became a county council childrens' home in the C20 and has been disused since c. 1998.
Exterior
Country house, unpainted stucco with hipped slate roofs and deep flat eaves. Stuccoed chimneys. Two main facades, that to N of 2-1-2 bays, projecting pedimented centre with similar eaves, raised plinth, band and stepped eaves band. Hornless 12-pane sashes with slate sills, all boarded over (2003), the ground floor second one lengthened as door. Ground floor centre plain canted bay with flat roof and 3 boarded smaller windows.
Entrance front of 4-bays has same horizontal mouldings and 12-pane sashes, door in second bay set slightly right of window above and centre 2 bays within a 3-bay classical portico. This has Roman Doric columns, the centre bay wider, the outer columns paired with square piers, and piers have pilaster responds. Triglyph frieze and deep cornice. Four rendered steps up. Broad doorway boarded over (2003), doors and side-lights concealed. Hipped deep eaved roof. S side is plainer, hipped projection to left is similar to other fronts with one 12-pane sash each floor, then 3-bay range to right with plinth only. This has arched stair light to left over plain flat-roofed porch in angle (over steps down to basement), then other 2 bays have sashes in three storeys, the upper ones breaking eaves under catslide roofs. Rear has twin hipped roofs with valley between. Attached walls enclose a small rear service court. The two principal chimneys are on the ridges of the two rear roofs, just behind entrance front range.
Interior
Interior inaccessible at time of survey.
Reason for designation
Included as an early Victorian country house in classical style which retains its overall character.
Nearby in the register
- Stable range at Avellenau HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- War MemorialCommemorativeunder 1 mi
- Milepost on A4076Commercialunder 1 mi
- Milepost near Merlins Bridge Post OfficeTransportunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.