Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Bryntirion
St. Dogmaels, Pembrokeshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 15 November 1993
- Locality
- Cippyn
- Community
- St. Dogmaels
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.10195, -4.70949
- Cadw reference
- 13108
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 hill top some 1km W of Poppit, approached by zig-zag drive from Bryntirion Lodge.
Exterior
Circa 1820 house in rubble stone with slate roof and rebuilt red brick end stacks. Basement and two storeys, formal 3-window front of large 12-pane sashes with slate sills. Centre broad doorway with radiating bar fanlight above 4-panel door with fielded-panel side-pieces. Timber lintels over all ground floor openings, the front presumably previously colourwashed or roughcast. Ground floor windows have big panelled shutters in boxes. Basement window to ground floor left. Two linked rear wings, the N one possibly later, chimney to right gable, centre platform to former first floor door, door below. Long pointed stair light to S side of S wing, with intersecting tracery to sash.
Interior
Broad entrance hall, 6-panel doors to both front rooms which have a balancing false door within for symmetry, panelled shutters. SE room has timber fireplace surround with fluted pilasters. Dog-leg stair with stick balusters. 4-panel door with lozenge tracery overlight to rear passage, possibly once external.
Reason for designation
A House of unusual architectural formality in the area. Marked on 1838 Tithe Map as owned by Benjamin Hall Esq and William James, occupied by Williams James, with lands of 37 acres.s
Nearby in the register
- PenparcDomesticunder 1 mi
- Former Rocket Apparatus StoreCommercialunder 1 mi
- Manian FawrDomesticunder 1 mi
- Penrhyn CastleMaritimeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.