Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Warren Farm Stable Block
Castlemartin, Pembrokeshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Warren, Castlemartin, Pembrokeshire, designated on 14 May 1970.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 14 May 1970
- Locality
- Warren
- Community
- Castlemartin
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.63881, -4.98961
- Cadw reference
- 6037
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
At N of Warren Farm, facing main entrance to farmyard.
Exterior
Stable: A large stable block is linked by a high wall to the Warren farmhouse group. N-facing, with space for four stalls. Local rubble masonry, slate roof. Access stairs to loft at the E end. The loft of this building was formerly used as sleeping quarters for farm servants, and a school is thought to have been held here at one time. (If so, the school was probably the Sunday School, established in 1816, of the Calvinistic Methodist Chapel at Thorne, St Twinnels. The Matthews family of Warren farm were leading members of the congregation at Thorne.)
AA signs: Attached to the SW corner of the stable is a pair of enamelled Automobile Association road signs of the type iii 'village' pattern, c.1930. About 40,000 such signs existed at the start of the war, but most were taken down in the invasion fears of 1940 and only about 100 survive nationally today, many in museums. These have additional interest as a related pair, one sign designed to be read while travelling W, the other while travelling E.
Reason for designation
Listed as a building of particular local-history importance, also with interesting pre-war AA signs in situ. Group Value with Warren Farm and St Mary's Church.
Nearby in the register
- Warren FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- St. Mary's ChurchReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Cross in St. Mary's ChurchyardReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Cold ComfortDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.