Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Plas y Mwswm
Nevern, Pembrokeshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 30 March 2023
- Welsh name
- Plas-y-Mwswm
- Locality
- Moylgrove
- Community
- Nevern
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.06844, -4.74664
- Cadw reference
- 87893
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 1608 "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
At the East end of the village, facing the T-junction.
History
Probably built late C18 / early C19 and shown on an estate map of 1822. A cottage in the same location is listed on the Tithe Apportionment as Hafod Grove, owned (and occupied) by Jane Rees and probably a tied cottage of the Hafod Grove Estate c1km to the SE, owned by Major John Vaughan Colby of Ffynone, Boncath. It is likely that it was a labourer’s cottage throughout the C19. The name Plas y Mwswm is first recorded in a census of 1881, when it was occupied by Benjamin James, a farm labourer and his family.
Exterior
Cottage. 2 storey, 2 bay off-set to right. Rubble stone, whitewashed to front elevation, cement rendered to lower gable wall. Slate roof, rendered gable stacks. Sash windows with narrow projections, 12-pane to ground floor, 6 over 3-pane to upper floor, eaves over broken by triangular gablets. Central boarded door (modern replacement) up 3 steps. Single storey (later) extension to right. Rear said to have part catslide extension and rooflight in main roof slope.
Interior
Not inspected but said to retain 2 room layout on ground floor, kitchen to left, parlour to right, with stair by left stack.
Reason for designation
Included for its special architectural interest as a good, little altered example of a west Wales vernacular cottage. Group Value with other listed buildings in the village.
Nearby in the register
- Penrallt yr Esgob CairnRound Cairnunder 1 mi
- Church of St AndrewReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Church CottageDomesticunder 1 mi
- Tre-PrysgDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.