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
6069
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
21/06/1971  
Date of Amendment
11/08/1997  
Name of Property
Wall with Tower and adjacent Pavement at Llawhaden House  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Pembrokeshire  
Community
Llawhaden  
Town
 
Locality
Llawhaden Village  
Easting
206917  
Northing
217339  
Street Side
 
Location
At the S side of the main street of Llawhaden Village, opposite to Llawhaden House.  

Description


Broad Class
Domestic  
Period
 

History
The wall appears to be of two periods. A local tradition exists to the effect that the wall was built by Royalist prisoners after their defeat at the battle of Colby Moor (1645). If true, it dates one portion of the wall only. There is also a date stone: it is built into the rear of the E portion of the wall, but is said to have been positioned formerly over the entrance at the extreme E end. This appears to date the eastern portion. The inscription is: 'This wall was built in 1691 in X weeks by William Skyrm(e) esq. Ll.B., D.D. with Thomas Matthews R S Evans H V Ferrier masons'. The reading of the masons' names may not be exact.  

Exterior
A wall about 130 m long, apparently built in two periods. The W three-fifths of its length is built of rubble masonry. The remainder, to the E, is in masonry brought to courses. The latter section includes the date-stone. At the E the wall returns to form the boundary with New Inn. At the W the wall returns to abut Ashgrove. In the middle of the rubble-masonry part there is a tower or gazebo, too thickly overgrown to be examined. At the E end there is a double gateway with timber gates. At the front of the wall there is a raised stone pavement. This important and rare survival may be contemporary with the 1691 part of the work.  

Interior
 

Reason for designation
Listed as a fine C17 garden wall with adjacent roadside pavement. Also listed for Group Value with Llawhaden House.  

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