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
18012
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
12/03/1996  
Date of Amendment
12/03/1996  
Name of Property
Bier House  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Pembrokeshire  
Community
Manorbier  
Town
 
Locality
Manorbier Village  
Easting
206843  
Northing
197962  
Street Side
 
Location
On the SE side of the main street of Manorbier, and about 75 m NE of the turning to Warlow’s Close.  

Description


Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary  
Period
 

History
 

Exterior
 

Interior
 

Reason for designation
Listed for special historic interest as items of unspoilt social value to the locality.  

Group Description
Cattle Pound and Bier House A circular cattle-pound of about 9 m diameter consisting of a roughly coursed limestone rubble wall, with no coping. The height of the wall is about 1.8 m. The date of construction is unknown, but it is similar to Castlemartin Pound, dated 1780. In 1840 the site was in the Philipps estate. It was disused by 1900. In 1900 the bier-house was built, most of which stands within the pound. Limestone rubble masonry at the rear, snecked facing masonry at the front. The bier-house is a cart shed with its gable and double-doors facing the street. It is 2.4 m wide by 4 m long internally. Slate roof. Carved bargeboards with timber finials. Framed, braced, ledged and battened doors. The door-frame head is in segmental form. Brick segmental arch to the rear doorway. The cattle-pound interior behind the bier-house is maintained as a public garden. The bier house is used as an information point for local tourism. In the street in front of the Bier House is a cast-iron water hydrant, manufactured by Glenfield and Kennedy of Kilmarnock.  

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