Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
15663
Building Number
Grade
II*
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
28/02/1995
Date of Amendment
30/04/1996
Name of Property
Four Mediaeval House at Upper Lamphey Park Farm
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Pembrokeshire
Community
Lamphey
Town
Locality
Lamphey Park
Easting
202520
Northing
201320
Street Side
Location
About 500m S of Deerpark Lane, at NW end of the farm complex.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Late medieval with early C19 and C20 alterations. Former house now calf shed forming N end of barn at NW end of the farm complex. The building lies within the medieval deer park of the bishop's palace at Lamphey, and is similar to a number of small 2 storey late medieval stone buildings surviving in Pembrokeshire, at Carswell, West Tarr, West Trewent, and East Trewent Farms.
Exterior
Rubble limestone with some external render, corrugated iron roof covering. Building is 2 storey, rectangular in plan measuring circa 5m (N-S) by 4.5m (EW) with small square stair tower at SW corner. W elevation has C19 door under flat brick arch. N elevation shows projecting chimney stack and corbel at eaves.
Interior
Interior has gabled N wall with blocked doorway under wooden lintel to L of the ground floor and a blocked reveal of a slot window to R. At first floor level is another blocked doorway (perhaps original entrance) alongside a fire place with quarter round and filleted corbels and a chamfered stone lintel; there is a rectangular recess alongside this fireplace. The W wall has the C19 doorway to R and a blocked doorway in the SW corner leading to the remains of a stone spiral staircase; this opens into the first floor via a partly blocked doorway above. A corbel carries the first floor, and there is a blocked window at first floor to R. The S wall ground floor has fireplace with segmental stone arch, now blocked, with a small slot window with splayed reveal to L. The wall is cut back to take the staircase doorway and there is a corbel above to carry the floor. Possible blocked doorway at first floor (but may be C19 insertion to adjacent barn). Modern feeding trough etc. There is a corbel to carry central roof truss at midpoint of the wall top. The floor is now concrete; pegged roof trusses (C19?).
Reason for designation
Listed Grade II* as rare example of this regional medieval house type. Group value with attached barn.
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