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
13042
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
29/10/1987
Date of Amendment
11/03/2004
Name of Property
Avellanau House
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Pembrokeshire
Community
Merlin's Bridge
Town
Haverfordwest
Locality
Merlin's Bridge
Easting
194548
Northing
214047
Street Side
Location
Reached by a long curving driveway past Fir Tree Close; driveway entry adjoins S side of railway bridge.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Country house of 1845 by William Owen of Haverfordwest for William Evans, solicitor, of Haverfordwest. It became a county council childrens' home in the C20 and has been disused since c. 1998.
Exterior
Country house, unpainted stucco with hipped slate roofs and deep flat eaves. Stuccoed chimneys. Two main facades, that to N of 2-1-2 bays, projecting pedimented centre with similar eaves, raised plinth, band and stepped eaves band. Hornless 12-pane sashes with slate sills, all boarded over (2003), the ground floor second one lengthened as door. Ground floor centre plain canted bay with flat roof and 3 boarded smaller windows.
Entrance front of 4-bays has same horizontal mouldings and 12-pane sashes, door in second bay set slightly right of window above and centre 2 bays within a 3-bay classical portico. This has Roman Doric columns, the centre bay wider, the outer columns paired with square piers, and piers have pilaster responds. Triglyph frieze and deep cornice. Four rendered steps up. Broad doorway boarded over (2003), doors and side-lights concealed. Hipped deep eaved roof. S side is plainer, hipped projection to left is similar to other fronts with one 12-pane sash each floor, then 3-bay range to right with plinth only. This has arched stair light to left over plain flat-roofed porch in angle (over steps down to basement), then other 2 bays have sashes in three storeys, the upper ones breaking eaves under catslide roofs. Rear has twin hipped roofs with valley between. Attached walls enclose a small rear service court. The two principal chimneys are on the ridges of the two rear roofs, just behind entrance front range.
Interior
Interior inaccessible at time of survey.
Reason for designation
Included as an early Victorian country house in classical style which retains its overall character.
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