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
12715
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
28/07/1992
Date of Amendment
28/07/1992
Name of Property
Garden Terrace, Hemicycle & Archway at Warpool Court Hotel
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Pembrokeshire
Community
St. David's and the Cathedral Close
Town
Locality
St. Non's
Easting
175009
Northing
224794
Street Side
Location
Situated below S front of hotel.
Description
Broad Class
Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces
Period
History
Exterior
Circa 1870 garden terrace wall with balustrade of broad elliptical arches between piers, off-centre flight of steps, W end garden seat in hemicycle and E end large ornamental gateway.
Rubble stone with extensive decoration in moulded black brick and red flooring tiles. The piers are decorated with rusticated pilasters of curved black brick alternated with bands of red, the terrace wall is capped with red tiles and between the piers the arches of the balustrade are of red tile, rusticated and with stone in spandrels. Red tile coping. Some piers have terracotta urns. Four bays of terracing to W of steps, the fourth bay advanced. Stone steps with cast-iron panels to balustrade, urns on piers, then two further bays before return N of three short bays to gateway.
Gateway is between rubble stone piers, angled in red brick and rising higher each side to stepped caps. Between the piers, red and black brick rusticated arched gateway, red brick stepped cornice and then, against upper part of piers two quadrant curves to form reversed arch feature.
Hemicycle at W end has rubble walls with red and black brick pilasters and centre garden seat on black brick corbels and under a triple arched and open pedimented centrepiece, the arches on two corbels and outer piers.
Similar unusual features in coloured brick can be seen in the house itself, in the walled garden and on the pump-house. One garden feature is dated 1870 when the house belonged to the Rev A J M Green (and was called Pen-y-Garn).
Interior
Reason for designation
Group value with Warpool Court.
Cadw : Full Report for Listed Buildings [ Records 1 of 1 ]
Export