Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
20277
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
20/08/1998
Date of Amendment
20/08/1998
Name of Property
Manorbier Village Hall
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Pembrokeshire
Community
Manorbier
Town
Locality
Manorbier
Easting
206597
Northing
197828
Street Side
Location
Prominently placed on an island site in the centre of the village, close to the entrance to the castle.
Description
Broad Class
Institutional
Period
History
Designed in 1908 by WAS Benson of London who had retired to Manorbier.
Exterior
Arts and Crafts style public building of one-storey with kitchen built below W end. Rectangular plan with coped gables and extruded angles to all four directions. Blue lias quoins and window dressings, rubble facings, cemented stringcourses. Ramped buttresses to longer sides merging into tapered chymney stacks towards W end. Slate roofs swept low over eaves. Main front with slated cross-gable and oculus to lean-to porch, doorways in angles. Venetian window to main gable with black wooden columns flanking c1970 clock-face, cemented cornice and lintol, small-pane glazing to arched head and casements. Side and W elevations with similar Venetian windows, single arched recess with sashes low down to sides at W end.
Interior
Single space with raised stage and balustraded handrail to stair at far end. Boarded timber roofs with angle trusses and one scissor truss with turned balusters to entrance bay.
Reason for designation
Included as a fine small scale example of a carefully designed Edwardian public building in a key location.
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