Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Blaen Ffynnonau
Narberth, Pembrokeshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 17 May 1988
- Community
- Narberth
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.80996, -4.74094
- Cadw reference
- 6506
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
In a farmyard reached via a track some 350 yds S of Redston cross.
Exterior
Early C19, 2 storey, 3 window farmhouse. Rubble masonry slate hung in diminishing coursed to ground floor sill level. Moderately pitched slate roof, plain close eaves, close verges. Large squat rendered stack to left, smaller stack to right end; water tabling.
Symmetrical features offset to right. 16 pane sash windows to 1st floor, slated reveals. Similar to ground floor windows flanking door.
Round arched doorway, blind fanlight, slated reveals; modern door.
Small attic window to left gable end with diagonal mullioned and shuttered buttery window to ground floor.
Later range to rear. Limewashed rubble masonry. Slate roof, oversailing eaves, close verges. Square stack, water tabling. Modern fenestration.
Stable adjoins to right. Continuous roofline with house. Limewashed rubble. Slate roof. Loft window below eaves, wooden shutter. Doorway offset to left, timber lintel; modern brick lean-to on right. End wall set into slope, stone steps to loft doorway, concrete lintel. Window to rear elevation.
Rubble wall encloses forecourt, later brick gatepiers.
Interior
Interior - good contemporary dog-leg staircase, moulded newel, plank doors on pointless.
Nearby in the register
- Stable attached to Blaen FfynnonauDomesticunder 1 mi
- Barn in Grounds of Blaen MarlaisAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Blaen MarlaisDomesticunder 1 mi
- Redstone Cross Round BarrowsRound Barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.