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Haroldston Cottage

Merlin's Bridge, Pembrokeshire, Wales

A Grade II listed building in Haroldston, Haverfordwest, Merlin's Bridge, Pembrokeshire, designated on 11 March 2004.

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1913) covering the location of Haroldston Cottage, Merlin's Bridge, Pembrokeshire, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1913), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Designation
Listed building, Grade II
Broad class
Domestic
Date of designation
11 March 2004
Locality
Haroldston
Town
Haverfordwest
Community
Merlin's Bridge
Unitary authority
Pembrokeshire
Country
Wales
Coordinates
51.79434, -4.96073
Cadw reference
82632

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (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)

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Cadw's description

On a bend in a minor road some 60m S of Haroldston Bridge.

Mid C19 cottage overlooking Haroldston Bridge, exceptionally well-built for a cottage, with minimal Tudor detail.

Cottage, squared brown sandstone with slate roof overhanging at left gable with bargeboards and cut stone end stacks with dripstones and capstones. Single storey with loft, double fronted with 9-pane hornless sash each side of centre board door, all three with cut sandstone square hoodmoulds over cut stone voussoirs. Painted slate sills. Left end wall, facing bridge, is similar stone with small 4-pane loft light under hoodmould, ground floor right narrow 8-pane sash with hoodmould and left lean-to. Rendered right hand end wall with loft light. Rear outshut. Forecourt enclosed by rubble walls with stepped end-on stone coping, square sandstone gatepiers with painted pyramid caps and 3 stone steps up.

Not inspected.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Designated Historic Asset GIS Data, The Welsh Historic Environment Service (Cadw), 2026-09-07, licensed under the Open Government Licence http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/ Cadw, the Welsh Historic Environment Service · Open Government Licence v3.0
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