Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
12561
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
26/08/1981
Date of Amendment
28/07/1992
Name of Property
Treasury Gateway (formerly listed separately)
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Pembrokeshire
Community
St. David's
Town
Locality
Easting
175097
Northing
225520
Street Side
Location
Situated bordering on footpath running NW from Pen-y-ffos and on road running NE to the Treasurer's House, enclosing SW and NW sides of garden S of Treasury Cottage.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Uncertain date, high rubble stone garden wall with C20 rebuilt crenellations capped in imitation slate. About 25m length to footpath to Pen-y-ffos, with blocked possibly ancient Tudor-arched doorway close to Pen-y-ffos. Footpath is cobbled in reddish cobbles with a date 1705 in white stones at N end.
Exterior
Along roadside, about 38m length back to Treasury Cottage, terminating at Treasury Gateway, a Tudor-arched carriage entry with cut stone voussoirs, probably C19. 1970s imitation slate coping. Broad E jamb with rounded recess or porter's seat, the seat itself a single piece of hollowed granite, supposedly the stone on which St Patrick sat when he had a vision of all Ireland and the people calling him to return.
Interior
Reason for designation
Group value.
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