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
84392
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
06/07/2005
Date of Amendment
06/07/2005
Name of Property
Abertawe House, including back cottage
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Pembrokeshire
Community
Newport
Town
Newport
Locality
Easting
205426
Northing
239032
Street Side
Location
Towards the west end of the street, on its southern side, immediately west of Westgate.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
A substantial urban villa, thought to have been built in 1892, though perhaps replacing an earlier house on the site (the back cottage is likely to pre-date the main house).
Exterior
Main house fronts the street, and at the rear, is linked by a length of rubble wall with quartizte copings to a smaller back cottage or service building facing the main house across a yard. Villa in a mildly gothic style, 2 storeyed with attics, and 3-bays. Scribed render with rusticated quoins to main elevation, rubble exposed in rear wall and gable ends. Slate roof with cresting and finials, yellow brick gable end stacks. Main elevation has narrow central bay with doorway in architrave with decorative panels (apparently incorporating coal or coke), and is flanked by full-height canted bays with 4-pane sash windows beneath broad dormer gables. Central window over doorway is also a 4-pane sash, and has similar decorated architrave, as do the tall attic windows. Wide gables have decorated barge-boards. Cast iron rainwater goods with embossed mask detail.
2-storeyed cottage to rear is of rubble with brick heads and quoins to 4-pane sash windows; slate roof with brick stack to left-hand gable. Rear elevation has mainly 4-pane sashes including stair window at centre.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed as an especially good example of the late C19 villa, characteristic of Newport, as of other west Wales port towns. Abertawe House retains its original character virtually intact, and thus nicely illustrates the rich decorative vocabulary employed in houses of this status.
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