Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Manorbier Village Hall
Manorbier, Pembrokeshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Manorbier, Pembrokeshire, designated on 20 August 1998.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Institutional
- Date of designation
- 20 August 1998
- Locality
- Manorbier
- Community
- Manorbier
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.64590, -4.79678
- Cadw reference
- 20277
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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
Prominently placed on an island site in the centre of the village, close to the entrance to the castle.
History
Designed in 1908 by WAS Benson of London who had retired to Manorbier.
Exterior
Arts and Crafts style public building of one-storey with kitchen built below W end. Rectangular plan with coped gables and extruded angles to all four directions. Blue lias quoins and window dressings, rubble facings, cemented stringcourses. Ramped buttresses to longer sides merging into tapered chymney stacks towards W end. Slate roofs swept low over eaves. Main front with slated cross-gable and oculus to lean-to porch, doorways in angles. Venetian window to main gable with black wooden columns flanking c1970 clock-face, cemented cornice and lintol, small-pane glazing to arched head and casements. Side and W elevations with similar Venetian windows, single arched recess with sashes low down to sides at W end.
Interior
Single space with raised stage and balustraded handrail to stair at far end. Boarded timber roofs with angle trusses and one scissor truss with turned balusters to entrance bay.
Reason for designation
Included as a fine small scale example of a carefully designed Edwardian public building in a key location.
Nearby in the register
- Shute CottageDomesticunder 1 mi
- Manorbier CastleCastleunder 1 mi
- Warlow's CottageDomesticunder 1 mi
- Manorbier CastleDefenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.