Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
The Almshouse
Angle, Pembrokeshire, Wales
A Grade II* listed building in Angle, Pembrokeshire, designated on 14 May 1970.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II*
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 14 May 1970
- Locality
- Angle
- Community
- Angle
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.68383, -5.08917
- Cadw reference
- 17149
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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)
- 1637 · Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1865 · England and Wales. England No. 6. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
At S of the village street, opposite the school.
History
Ruin of late mediaeval first-floor hall, parallel to but set back from village street. Reputedly a nunnery, but without historical proof. More positively referred to in 1715 as having been an almshouse. Also referred to on OS plans as a castle, but not known as such locally. Already in ruins when described in 1868. Now a shell with sheds added internally and externally. W side collapsed.
Exterior
Rubble masonry with red sandstone gravel mortar. Main floor and roof are missing. Loopholes in ground storey walls, but no other details of a defensive character. First-floor entrance doorway is a large arched opening at E of the N side. Large lateral fireplace at W of the N side. Door and window heads of the first-floor hall are of late Gothic type. The E window has window seats not usual in late Gothic, but they are evidence of the domestic purpose of the building.
Reason for designation
Listed as a specimen of mediaeval domestic architecture
Nearby in the register
- Angle CastleBuilding (Unclassified)under 1 mi
- 7 Main StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 12Domesticunder 1 mi
- Monument to John MirehouseCommemorativeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.