Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Offices & Outbuilding to W of Glanrhyd House (also known as The Court House)
Clynderwen, Pembrokeshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 21 March 1980
- Locality
- Castell Dwyran
- Community
- Clynderwen
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.83374, -4.69099
- Cadw reference
- 9730
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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
On the W side of Glanrhyd House.
History
Dated 1779 and built by Evan Griffiths of Glanrhyd. Griffiths (d1796) was Sheriff of Carmarthenshire. The office is contemporary with the house, a barn of 1778, and cow house.
Exterior
A 2-storey outbuilding of rubble stone with bigger quoins, and asbestos-slate roof with freestone stack to the NE end. Openings have freestone voussoirs and keystones. In the NW elevation the 'office' occupies the L side. It has 3 windows under flat brick arches, with wooden glazing bars but partly boarded up, and a doorway R of centre under an elliptical head and with double boarded doors. Above the doorway is a segmental-headed loft doorway with boarded doors, to the L of which is a stone tablet. It is inscribed 'These offices were built by Evan Griffiths Esq 1779'. Further R the elevation is brought forward, with coach house or cart shed in the lower storey. It has 3 elliptical arched doorways with impost band, of which 2 of the doorways have wide boarded doors, the other is open. A central loft doorway is similar to the doorway further L. In the SW gable end is a roofed external stone stairway under a lower roof line, stone in the gable end but brick above the wooden lintel on the NW side. The NE gable end has stone steps leading to a fielded-panel door under a flat arch offset to the L side. The gable has pigeon holes.
In the rear (SE) elevation, the 'office' on the R side has a 4-pane window lower centre, to the R of which is an upper storey window boarded up and a boarded-up window beneath the eaves. On the L side is a boarded loft doorway under a segmental head. A similar loft doorway is further L, above 3 ventilation strips in the lower storey.
Interior
The office retains the remains of a painted ceiling and, on the SW wall, of round arched panelling.
Reason for designation
Listed as a well-preserved C18 outbuilding retaining original character and detail, and as part of a strong group of C18 house and outbuildings at Glanrhyd.
Nearby in the register
- Water house at rear of Glanrhyd HouseNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Glanrhyd HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Barn at GlanrhydAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Glanrhyd FarmAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.