Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
The Former Courthouse
Narberth, Pembrokeshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Narberth, Pembrokeshire, designated on 8 November 1991.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 8 November 1991
- Community
- Narberth
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.79753, -4.74267
- Cadw reference
- 6558
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)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Sheet 10. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. . (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 228 Haverfordwest (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Occupying a prominent site downhill from market square. Longer N side elevation to Picton Place.
History
Building started 1863 (foundation stone laid 1st June). Designed as a courthouse by Charles Reeves of London, HM surveyor of Police and county courts. Builders were MOrgan, Howell and Williams of Carmarthen (George Morgan later became famous as a Chapel builder of distinction). High Victorian classicism in the manner of Sir Charles Barry and Thomas Cubitt.
Exterior
2-storey and attic public building. Three-plus-one bays to entrance front, four bays to right side. Limestone facings, bath stone dressings including flush-set quoins. Hipped slate roof over wide bracket cornice (brackets grouped in threes). Deep sill band linked upwards to attic window margins and downwards to keystones of tall round-arched windows on first-floor with panelled aprons. Moulded cornice over ground-floor keystones to segmental-arched windows with impost bands. Banded rustication to piers, recessed aprons, stugged masonry to lower courses. Sash windows with marginal glazing bars. Cast-stone Royal Arms on corbelled cornice to blocked first-floor opening over main entrance with double three-panel doors. Basement to lefthand bay stepping downhill, slate side elevation with stone stack above. Detailing as before to Picton Place front with smaller doors and slate-hung rear.
Nearby in the register
- 12 Market SquareDomesticunder 1 mi
- Telephone Call-box by War MemorialCommunicationsunder 1 mi
- 14 Market SquareDomesticunder 1 mi
- Lamp Standard by War MemorialGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.