Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
17149
Building Number
Grade
II*
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
14/05/1970
Date of Amendment
26/01/1996
Name of Property
The Almshouse
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Pembrokeshire
Community
Angle
Town
Locality
Angle
Easting
186550
Northing
202860
Street Side
Location
At S of the village street, opposite the school.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Ruin of late mediaeval first-floor hall, parallel to but set back from village street. Reputedly a nunnery, but without historical proof. More positively referred to in 1715 as having been an almshouse. Also referred to on OS plans as a castle, but not known as such locally. Already in ruins when described in 1868. Now a shell with sheds added internally and externally. W side collapsed.
Exterior
Rubble masonry with red sandstone gravel mortar. Main floor and roof are missing. Loopholes in ground storey walls, but no other details of a defensive character. First-floor entrance doorway is a large arched opening at E of the N side. Large lateral fireplace at W of the N side. Door and window heads of the first-floor hall are of late Gothic type. The E window has window seats not usual in late Gothic, but they are evidence of the domestic purpose of the building.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed as a specimen of mediaeval domestic architecture
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