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
20343
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
25/08/1998
Date of Amendment
25/08/1998
Name of Property
Trewarren
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Pembrokeshire
Community
St. Ishmael's
Town
Haverfordwest
Locality
St Ishmaels
Easting
182931
Northing
207039
Street Side
Location
Situated some 500m SW of the centre of St Ishmaels village and some 600m N of the coast at Monk Haven.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Substantial country house built in 1845 for Gilbert Warren-Davis. The style suggests that the architect might be William Owen of Haverfordwest, designer of Scolton Manor and Avellanau, houses in similar style. Sold by the Warren-Davis family after 1940.
Exterior
Country house, roughcast with hipped slate deep-eaved roofs and rendered corniced ridge stacks. U-plan, two storeys with long 6-window S front, 4-window E entrance front and 5-window W side, partly of 3 storeys. Moulded eaves. S front has slightly projected centre 2-window section, roof continuous over, 6 first floor hornless large 12-pane sashes with slate sills and 6 full length ground floor horned 12-pane sashes, possibly a later C19 alteration, set within a slated 6-bay open veranda on slim tapering timber posts. Slate paving and single step. E front has similar 4-window first floor, the left window blank. The ground floor has blank arched recesses to left and right and centre 3 arched openings, the outer ones windows with fixed Y-tracery timber glazing, the centre a half-glazed door with Y-tracery in fanlight. Two ridge stacks. The W end has S facing monopitch-roofed conservatory on brick base, against a rubble wall. Main house W wall is rendered. 5 ridge stacks, the right stack similar to those on E ridge, the others in black brick. From right one basement 6-pane window, then 5-window range of 12-pane sashes to ground and first floor, except for door in left end bay. Second floor 6-pane sashes under eaves in left four bays. Slate sills.
Rear has three hipped roofs, recessed centre has tall arched stair-light to left, with double marginal glazing bars, and large 12-pane sash each floor to right. E wing has W door and 12-pane sash over, small window to right at half-level. Longer W wing has E first floor 12-pane sash in left angle, over door and one 12-pane sash to first floor right. Windowless end walls.
Interior
Not inspected. Axial cross passage plan with main stair to centre right and principal rooms to left. Stair has cast-iron balustrade.
Reason for designation
A substantial and unaltered country house of the 1840s.
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