Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Date of Designation
14/04/1992
Date of Amendment
14/04/1992
Name of Property
Plas Newydd
Unitary Authority
Pembrokeshire
Location
Situated prominently on crest of hill some 0.75km south east of St Dogmaels.
History
Circa 1810, altered.
Exterior
Pebbledashed with slate pyramid roof and apex banded stone stack. Basement and 2 storeys. Flat eaves with paired brackets. Three-window north front with later C19 plate glass sashes, slate sills, and centre door reached by flight of slate steps, rebuilt in C20. C20 door and overlight but original doorcase in modified classical style, 2 unfluted Greek Doric half columns, triglyph frieze and big oversailing cornice. Basement lights each side. Two-window west wall with 1991 conservatory. South east lower 2-storey rear wing.
Reason for designation
Built for Sir Watkin Lewis, Lord Mayor of London, before 1810 and possibly altered for Captain George Bowen, first coxswain of the Cardigan lifeboat 1848.
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