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.
Date of Designation
26/02/1998
Date of Amendment
26/02/1998
Name of Property
2, The Rhos
Unitary Authority
Pembrokeshire
Location
In The Rhos (Rhos Village), N of the road junction. Set in large cottage gardens, with iron railings on a low brick wall at front and gates between stone gate-posts.
History
Mid-C19 estate workers' cottages. One cottage was recently a post office.
Reason for designation
Listed as an attractive group of mid-C19 estate cottages in a picturesque style with contrasting colours and materials, and for group value with Picton Castle.
Group Description
Nos. 1 to 4 (consec.), at The Rhos
A compact group of four cottages, the two at centre facing forward and the two outer ones back-to-side with them. Local stone, with limestone quoins, irregularly coursed. The door and window openings are cased in brickwork. Slated roofs with tile ridges. Verge and eaves projections, with barges and finials. Large brick chimneys with a string course at ridge level and six joined brickwork stacks.
Each cottage is of two storeys and three windows. Central doors. Dormer gablets over the upper windows. Brick hoodmoulds over the lower windows and over the upper windows in the gable ends. Generally small-pane windows, some frames replaced.
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