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
14404
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
15/02/1994
Date of Amendment
15/02/1994
Name of Property
Llanreithan
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Pembrokeshire
Community
Brawdy
Town
Locality
Llanreithan
Easting
186438
Northing
228446
Street Side
Location
Situated by Llanreithan Church, some 3km NNW of Llandeloy.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Llanreithan was a gentry house from at least the C16, owned by the Griffith family in early C17 and passed to John Laugharne c1650. A later John Laugharne bankrupted the estate and it was sold 1752, and tenanted until sold c1795 to David John, tenant in 1768; he died in 1801. The old house was demolished and this one built possibly by David John, but more probably by his widow after her remarriage in 1807.
Exterior
Late C18 or early C19 large farmhouse with colour-washed slate-hung front, slate hipped eaves roof and rendered rear wall stacks. Two-storey, long three-window front of 12-pane hornless sashes and centre 6-panel door with traceried fanlight. C20 glazed timber and concrete-block porch. Slate hanging is thickly colourwashed and varied between the floors by two bands of fish-scale slates. Roughcast N end wall. S end wall is slate hung, with first floor blank window. Rear range is lower, roughcast with very large stone outside stack. Three windows above, two below, door and C20 lean-to.
Interior
Broad hall, staircase with stick balusters, 6-panel doors. N room has undercut acanthus cornice and vine-trail ceiling border. Arched recess in N wall with plaster ornament to imposts and square rosette in arch head.
Reason for designation
Cadw : Full Report for Listed Buildings [ Records 1 of 1 ]
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