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
82467
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
10/04/2004
Date of Amendment
10/02/2004
Name of Property
Grondre House
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Pembrokeshire
Community
Clynderwen
Town
Locality
Grondre
Easting
211211
Northing
217923
Street Side
Location
Approximately 1.5km SW of Clynderwen, within a holiday park reached by private drive on the W side of the A478.
Description
Broad Class
Period
History
A mid C19 Georgian-style house with some Tudor detailing, built on the site of a farmstead shown here on the 1837 Tithe map. The house is first shown on the 1889 Ordnance Survey. Walls were rendered in the late C20.
Exterior
A 2-storey 3-bay house of rendered walls, double-gabled slate roof, in the valley of which and to the R side of which are 2 pairs of stacks with tall barley-twist shafts. The symmetrical E entrance front has central porch with replaced double doors and blind loop in the gable. Windows are margin-lit 12-pane sashes under Tudor-Gothic hood moulds. In each gable is a blind loop. The 3-bay S front has tall cross windows R and L with marginal glazing, and sash windows in the upper storey, similar to the front. The 3-bay rear is also similar to the front, with a replaced door to a central porch, French door lower L and cross window lower R. In the upper storey is a 2-pane sash window to the L in an original opening, and margin-lit 12-pane sashes to the centre and R.
The service block is on the N side. It comprises a 2-window single-storey wing set back from the main E front, which has a replaced door and single over 6-pane sash windows. Behind it is a parallel 2-storey wing, which has a single margin-lit 12-pane sash window in a gabled half dormer to the E. On the W side, which is set back from the rear of the main house, it has a 12-pane margin-lit sash window in the lower storey, a similar window upper R and 2-pane sash window upper centre.
Interior
Not inspected.
Reason for designation
Listed for its special architectural interest as a small C19 country house retaining original character.
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