Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Cattle Pound
Manorbier, Pembrokeshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Manorbier Village, Manorbier, Pembrokeshire, designated on 12 March 1996.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 12 March 1996
- Locality
- Manorbier Village
- Community
- Manorbier
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.64716, -4.79327
- Cadw reference
- 18011
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 1636 map "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1865 · England and Wales. England No. 6. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Sheet 10. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. . (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 245 Pembroke (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
On the SE side of the main street of Manorbier, and about 75 m NE of the turning to Warlow’s Close.
Exterior
A circular cattle-pound of about 9 m diameter consisting of a roughly coursed limestone rubble wall, with no coping. The height of the wall is about 1.8 m. The date of construction is unknown, but it is similar to Castlemartin Pound, dated 1780. In 1840 the site was in the Philipps estate. It was disused by 1900.
In 1900 the bier-house was built, most of which stands within the pound. Limestone rubble masonry at the rear, snecked facing masonry at the front. The bier-house is a cart shed with its gable and double-doors facing the street. It is 2.4 m wide by 4 m long internally. Slate roof. Carved bargeboards with timber finials. Framed, braced, ledged and battened doors. The door-frame head is in segmental form. Brick segmental arch to the rear doorway.
The cattle-pound interior behind the bier-house is maintained as a public garden. The bier house is used as an information point for local tourism.
In the street in front of the Bier House is a cast-iron water hydrant, manufactured by Glenfield and Kennedy of Kilmarnock.
Reason for designation
Listed for special historic interest as items of unspoilt social value to the locality.
Nearby in the register
- Bier HouseReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Warlow's CottageDomesticunder 1 mi
- Manorbier Village HallInstitutionalunder 1 mi
- Blue DolphinsDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.