Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
12126
Building Number
31
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
01/07/1974
Date of Amendment
30/11/2005
Name of Property
Emlyn House
Address
31 Hill Lane
Location
Unitary Authority
Pembrokeshire
Community
Haverfordwest
Town
Haverfordwest
Locality
Easting
195410
Northing
215539
Street Side
E
Location
Situated in terraced row Nos 27-33 Hill Lane.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Terraced house, probably early C19, possibly late C18. The deeds refer to a sale in 1823, and may relate to a building or rebuilding date as at that point three properties, probably Nos 27-31 were sold to Richard Evans, shoemaker, and the deeds of No 29 refer to the same sale. Subsequent deeds 1856, 1861, 1895 sale by William Morris, draper, to Lewis Roberts. Occupied in 1901 by John Rees and in 1926 by D.J. Lloyd. Said, without evidence, to have been a town house of the Earls Cawdor of Stackpole, whose junior title was Viscount Emlyn. It was used as a hotel in the mid to later C20, with large rear addition, recently restored as single house 2005. The doorcase matches that on No 33 adjoining.
Exterior
Terraced house, painted lined stucco with slate close-eaved roof. Three storeys and basement, two-window range of 12-pane hornless sashes to upper floors and tripartite 4-12-4-pane sash to ground floor left. Renewed slate sills. Doorcase with attached Ionic columns, entablature blocks with pulvinated frieze, and open pediment with small modillions. Arched doorway with renewed reveals, radiating-bar fanlight and renewed 6-panel door.
Basement vent to left. Rear has 12-pane sash to second floor over two-storey lean-to with moulded surround to first floor window. Attached to rear right is large C20 rear addition.
Interior
Entrance hall with staircase in line: continuous rail, scrolled at foot, square balusters, scrolled tread ends. Four flights. Ground floor front room has moulded cornice, Victorian fireplace and moulded elliptical-arched sideboard recess.
Reason for designation
Included as a house with late Georgian origins and some good internal detailing.
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