Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
19079
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
13/11/1997
Date of Amendment
13/11/1997
Name of Property
Entrance walls and gatepiers to Roch Castle
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Pembrokeshire
Community
Nolton and Roch
Town
Haverfordwest
Locality
Roch
Easting
187977
Northing
221159
Street Side
Location
Situated at SW entry to Roch Castle grounds.
Description
Broad Class
Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces
Period
History
Early C20 formal approach to Roch Castle, probably of c1904-9 and part of the rebuilding of Roch Castle as a house for Sir J. Wynford Philipps Bt of Picton, later Viscount St Davids. His architect was D.E. Thomas of Haverfordwest. The marble War Memorial plaque was rescued by W.D. Berry, owner of the castle, from the former Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Roch.
Exterior
Entrance wall and piers, in rock-faced stone with heavy rock-faced string-course and copings. Two gatepiers with wooden gates, then short length of wall each side to two slightly higher large projecting rounded bastions, hollow within. Wall runs some distance to E to terminate at an arched doorway with stone coping ramped over. Reset white marble war memorial plaque to right. Wall continues to W in short curving length.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as a well-designed formal entry to Roch Castle.
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