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
19405
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
23/02/1998
Date of Amendment
23/02/1998
Name of Property
West Hook
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Pembrokeshire
Community
Marloes and St. Brides
Town
Haverfordwest
Locality
Martin's Haven
Easting
176473
Northing
209025
Street Side
Location
Situated N of the minor road from Marloes to Martin's Haven and some 400m E of Martin's Haven.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Farmhouse late C19 or early C20 incorporating much older, possibly C17, massive external chimneystack. East and West Hook were owned from the C16 to 1802 by the Runwa family, also called Runwae. Both farms were tenanted in 1786. West Hook was sold to the Philipps family. The Tithe Map of 1845 shows a holding of 107 acres (43 hectares)owned by William Philipps of St Brides Castle and occupied by Thomas Warlow.
Exterior
Farmhouse, whitewashed rubble stone with grouted renewed roof and end stacks, brick to right, massive external stack possibly C17 to left. Two-storey E front with 4-pane sashes, two over centre porch, one-window range each side. Gabled porch with S side entry. One of the windows over is said to be recently inserted. Ground floor openings have brick heads and sills. Lean-to rear. Outbuilding on N end.
End chimney is exceptionally large, rendered and whitewashed, roughly square at base battered in on all 3 sides to short roughly square shaft.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included for the regional character of this farmhouse which retains a massive external chimneybreast, a feature special to the region.
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