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
12560
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
26/08/1981
Date of Amendment
28/07/1992
Name of Property
Garden Wall between Pen-y-Ffos and the Treasurer's House
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Pembrokeshire
Community
St. David's and the Cathedral Close
Town
Locality
Easting
175084
Northing
225504
Street Side
Location
Situated bordering on footpath running NW from Pen-y-ffos and on road running NE to the Treasurer's House, enclosing SW and NW sides of garden S of Treasury Cottage.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Uncertain date, high rubble stone garden wall with C20 rebuilt crenellations capped in imitation slate. About 25m length to footpath to Pen-y-ffos, with blocked possibly ancient Tudor-arched doorway close to Pen-y-ffos. Footpath is cobbled in reddish cobbles with a date 1705 in white stones at N end.
Exterior
Along roadside, about 38m length back to Treasury Cottage, terminating at Treasury Gateway, a Tudor-arched carriage entry with cut stone voussoirs, probably C19. 1970s imitation slate coping. Broad E jamb with rounded recess or porter's seat, the seat itself a single piece of hollowed granite, supposedly the stone on which St Patrick sat when he had a vision of all Ireland and the people calling him to return.
Interior
Reason for designation
Group value.
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