Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Castle Hill
Dinas Cross, Pembrokeshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Communications
- Date of designation
- 17 November 1994
- Locality
- Bwlchmawr
- Community
- Dinas Cross
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.00711, -4.90925
- Cadw reference
- 14947
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 immediately on road opposite Glan Hotel.
History
Later C19 pair of houses, Castle Hill formerly a Post Office and Greystones a shop.
Exterior
Rubble stone with grey limestone dressings, slate roof and three stone stacks. Each house has two-storey, three-window range of 12-pane hornless large sashes in grey stone surrounds, and grey stone quoins to outer angles. Castle Hill, to left, has centre 4-panel door with traceried overlight and C20 shop-window to right, replacing original window of which head and one side remain. Greystones, to right, has fine C19 shopfront across left and centre, with recessed door between two square shop-windows of 12 fixed panes. Plain flanking piers and thin fascia with brackets and cornice. Double shop doors and overlight. 12-pane horned sash to ground floor right replacing door. Roughcast W end wall with two horned sashes to first floor.
Reason for designation
Included as a pair of good examples of local stone buildings, still in late Georgian style, and for unaltered shop-front, rare in the area.
Nearby in the register
- GreystonesCommercialunder 1 mi
- Tabor Baptist Chapel Including front wall, Railings, BwlchmawrReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Standing Stoneunder 1 mi
- Pigsty at Hescwm Mill/Felin HescwmAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.