Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Hendre Cross
Brawdy, Pembrokeshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Education
- Date of designation
- 5 October 1994
- Locality
- Llanddinog
- Town
- Llandeloy
- Community
- Brawdy
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.89854, -5.14677
- Cadw reference
- 14400
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 at Hendre Cross, some 2km W of Llandeloy.
History
1855 former National School by Joseph Jenkins of Haverfordwest.
Exterior
Coursed squared grey stone with grey limestone quoins and purple Caerbwdy stone dressings elsewhere. L-plan with large single-storey schoolroom with mezzaine floor and staircase, pine end to road and two storey house in S cross-wing. Schoolroom has grey limestone plinth and quoins, purple stone moulded shoulders to gable, coped gable and small N end stack. N wall has an out-of-character C20 bow-window inserted to light gallery space. W side has 3-light painted stone mullion-and-transom window with Tudor-arched heads to lower lights and small-pane glazing in centre top light. Chamfered surround in purple stone. To right a projecting porch with bellcote. N side ledged door, cambered-headed in purple stone surround. Grey stone quoins, coped W gable with purple stone shoulders and gabled bellcote. Bellcote is carried on slightly raised walling on corbels above ground floor 2-light Tudor stone-mullion window. A very small window above in bellcote shaft. C20 glazed lean to to right, in angle to domestic range, running W with coped E and W gables, and W end stack. One ground floor similar 2-light Tudor window.
Reason for designation
Included as an unusually elaborate mid C19 church school, similar to the one at Llanrhian by the same architect, 1851.
Nearby in the register
- Paran ChapelReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Felin WenIndustrialunder 1 mi
- Tre-Maen Hir Standing StonesStanding Stoneunder 1 mi
- TremaenhirDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.