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
6586
Building Number
Grade
II*
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
14/05/1970
Date of Amendment
29/09/1993
Name of Property
Former Banqueting Tower, about 300m SE of Orielton Field Centre
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Pembrokeshire
Community
Hundleton
Town
Locality
Easting
195435
Northing
198750
Street Side
Location
Situated on S edge of walled part of estate, approached by farm track running E from West Orielton Lodge.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Exterior
Early to mid C18 belvedere tower, formerly with banqueting room. Rubble stone, red brick and Bath stone dressings. Massive three-storey square plan tower in early Georgian style. Squat roughcast ground floor with broad camber-headed carriage arches N and S, cut stone voussoirs and raised keystone. Upper floors are red brick with Bath stone alternating quoins, two red brick string-courses with raised Bath stone angle blocks and large window openings in rusticated surrounds with flat ashlar heads and raised keystones. Stone sills. Stone string-course under high brick parapet with ashlar angle piers and moulded ashlar coping. E side is windowless and ivy-clad, first-floor blank opening visible; N front is also obscured by ivy. Indications of roughcast over brickwork on first floor E, and of a gabled low building running E from E wall.
Interior
Roofless and floorless but has remnants of fielded plaster panels and corner fireplaces.
Reason for designation
Included at Grade II* as one of the most important folly buildings in SW Wales; apparently already derelict by mid C19, but described as a banqueting tower in estate sale documents. The brick and stone detail may echo that of the main house described, before the 1810 remodelling, as being of brick and stone.
Group value with other listed items at West Orielton and Orielton Field Centre.
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