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
12961
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
29/04/1993  
Date of Amendment
29/04/1993  
Name of Property
Priskilly Forest  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Pembrokeshire  
Community
Mathry  
Town
 
Locality
Priskilly Forest  
Easting
191746  
Northing
230037  
Street Side
 
Location
Situated some 700 m SE of Priskilly Cross on Letterston Castle Morris Road.  

Description


Broad Class
Domestic  
Period
 

History
Mid C18 and early C19 country house. A country house of the Harries family. Marked as L-plan on map in Bishop of St David's Map Book 1815 in National Library of Wales. John Hill Harries was lessee 1843 (Tithe Map).  

Exterior
Whitewashed roughcast on rubble stone with slate roofs and roughcast stacks. Two storeys and attic, L-plan SE front probably mid C18 (similar to Tregwynt, Pencaer) and parallel NW 4-window front of 1820-30. SE front has 5-window main range of narrow 8-pane sashes, replacing original 18-pane sashes, one of which survives on right end wall. Slate sills. Centre half-glazed door in simple moulded architrave with dentilled cornice. Left end window has been replaced by a door. Three gabled dormers in roof. Right end stack. Return at left end is whitewashed stone, 2-window range of similar windows, but wider spaced, with single dormer. Hipped SE angle. S end wall has first floor 12-pane window and altered ground floor window. Big lean-to on rear. Added NW range is regular 4-window range without door, long 15-pane sashes below, 12-pane sashes above. Timber eaves cornice with flat mutules, similar to Trevaccoon, Llanrhian.  

Interior
 

Reason for designation
 

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