Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Blue Dolphins
Manorbier, Pembrokeshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Manorbier Village, Manorbier, Pembrokeshire, designated on 14 May 1970.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 14 May 1970
- Locality
- Manorbier Village
- Community
- Manorbier
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.64822, -4.79808
- Cadw reference
- 5980
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 outskirts of Manorbier village, on a corner site at the E side of the road leading to Bier Cross and at N of a lane leading to Tarr Farm. The first 2 attached cottages.
History
Late C18 or early C19 cottage. In 1840 it was owned by George Twigg and occupied by Francis Twigg. From 1904 Manorbier was for several years the summer residence of Virginia Woolf, some of whose letters in 1908 were dated from ‘Sea View, Manorbier’ or mention of the cottage. After the Second World War the name Sea View was changed to Blue Dolphins.
Between the original Sea View cottage and the other cottage is a single bay link which was formerly the village Post Office. This link is now incorporated in Blue Dolphins.
Exterior
House of 2 storeys. Range of originally 3, now 4 windows, facing S with view of Manorbier bay. The original 3 windows range has a central main door with lobby and stairs between 2 principal rooms. There is no cellar, as the site is rock. The house has been much extended at the rear.
Front and side elevations of rubble masonry hung with slates in graded sizes. Bay windows on either side of the main door and the upper window of the link section. Other windows are of casement type, in widened openings. Both types renovated in hardwood. Front door of 4 panels, the lower panels being flush. There is a rectangular overlight. Flat-roofed porch supported on thin (10 cm diameter) cast-iron columns, tapered with entasis. Slate roof with brickwork end-chimneys. Low wall to the forecourt.
Reason for designation
Listed as a house of interesting character and with an important literary association.
Nearby in the register
- Manorbier Village HallInstitutionalunder 1 mi
- Warlow's CottageDomesticunder 1 mi
- Manorbier CastleCastleunder 1 mi
- Manorbier CastleDefenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.