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
18009
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
12/03/1996
Date of Amendment
12/03/1996
Name of Property
Ruins adjacent to Church Hill Cottage, Ruin A
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Pembrokeshire
Community
Manorbier
Town
Locality
Manorbier Village
Easting
206520
Northing
197618
Street Side
Location
At S side of Manorbier Churchyard in the grounds of Church Hill Cottage.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
On the site of Church Hill Cottage is structural evidence of perhaps 5 buildings. It is traditionally thought that these buildings are (or incorporate remains of) a grange established after Sir John de Barri granted the Church to the Priory of Monkton in 1301.
In addition to the cottage itself [which is separately listed] there are (A) a building in tandem to the cottage to its E; (B) a building to the S of ‘A’ and at right-angles to it; (C) a building lying to its S; and (D) a building at the SW corner of the cottage garden. The Churchyard and the cottage site are both recorded as Rectorial Glebe in the 1840 Tithe Survey. Fenton (1810) refers to ‘no small remains of some chantry or collegiate building there being one large building still covered with a vaulted roof but entirely open to the west.’
Exterior
Building ‘A’ consists of 2 surviving lateral walls. It is the same width as the cottage but uncertain lengths. Small-rubble masonry without dressings or any architectural detail. A doorway at N, facing into the churchyard, 2m wide by 2 m high with a segmental arch. There are remnants of a tiled lean-to porch roof at this doorway. There is no opposed doorway in the S wall. At its W end abutting Church Hill Cottage are 2 small rooms. Seen from the churchyard there is a slit window at left of doorway and a remnant of a spiral staircase at the right, the latter mostly blocked by the later corner of the adjacent cottage. The spiral rises anticlockwise. At the other side of the building, facing S, is an opening with a crude segmental head, later reduced to a smaller opening.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed as a set of buildings in a very important historical relationship to Manorbier Church and also for group value with Church Hill Cottage.
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