Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Llawhaden Village Pound
Llawhaden, Pembrokeshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 11 August 1997
- Locality
- Llawhaden Village
- Community
- Llawhaden
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.82209, -4.79809
- Cadw reference
- 18796
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
At the left side of the causeway entering Llawhaden Castle.
History
A cattle-pound probably of the C18, formed by walling off a part of the castle moat. It clearly post-dates any serious occupation of the castle in a military sense, and the subsequent filling in of the drawbridge section of the moat to form a causeway. It may be broadly contemporary with other cattle pounds such as Manorbier or Castlemartin (the latter dated 1780).
Exterior
An enclosure of rubble stonework, approximately oval, the wall being about 2 m in height. The W entrance-turret forms one side. A gate at the W side.
Reason for designation
Listed for Group Value with Llawhaden Castle and as an old cattle-pound.
Nearby in the register
- Llawhaden CastleCastleunder 1 mi
- Llawhaden CastleDefenceunder 1 mi
- Gatepiers and gates at Llawhaden HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Stables and Loft at Llawhaden HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.