Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Brithdir Mawr
Newport, Pembrokeshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 20 August 1993
- Locality
- Brithdir
- Community
- Newport
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.00084, -4.80632
- Cadw reference
- 13081
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 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Situated down track running East off Cilgwyn Road some 700m North of Gilgwyn Bridge.
History
Mid C19.
Exterior
Large farmhouse in rubble stone, rendered to front with slate roofs and end wall stacks. Two-storey three-window front with paired brackets to eaves and 16 pane sashes with slate sills. Centre 4-panel door with lozenge-pattern overlight. Windowless East end wall, and 12-pane sash to West end ground floor. Big NW rear wing with long arched stair light intersecting tracery to head, and 2-window range to right, two 12-pane sashes above. One 16-pane and door below. Stone North end stack. Outshut to East.
Walled garden in front to rear wing.
Condition poor (1992).
Reason for designation
Listed as an unusually large farmhouse in late Georgian style.
Nearby in the register
- Plain DealingsDomesticunder 1 mi
- New EnglandDomesticunder 1 mi
- Carn Ingli CampHillfortunder 1 mi
- Carn Ingli Round BarrowsRound Barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.