Brownslade Farm Buildings

The ruins of Brownslade Farm buildings date to around 1800 and formed the home farm for the Mirehouse tenancy on the Cawdor estate. The farm has been unoccupied since at least 1938, with temporary use as part of an Army Range HQ. Brownslade House, to which the farm belonged, was demolished around 1980.

The original farm buildings, located west of the former Brownslade House, are approached separately from the house via a symmetrical, plain west front with an axial approach road. A cobbled gateway provides entrance to a large, square yard, originally surrounded by farm buildings. Later farm buildings and outbuildings of the house survive to the east.

On the west side, cart sheds originally flanked the gateway, their blocked openings visible with lintels. These sheds were later, after 1838, converted into a pair of two-storey cottages, accompanied by a taller granary and a pigeon loft over the gates. The cottages feature central doorways between windows, and their upper floors may have been part of the granary. Byres or cattle sheds stand to the north and south of the cottages.

A barn with large buttresses to its south wall stands on the north side of the yard. It features three doorways facing south with flat voussoir heads, while the upper storey has a central doorway, potentially indicating a former granary. This barn may be the oldest building in the group.

On the south side are cowsheds and byres, likely with a granary above.

To the east, a three-bay threshing barn is accompanied by an additional storage building to the north. The western doorway to the threshing floor is topped with a deep segmental brick arch, while the smaller eastern doorway has stone voussoirs. The central bay is flagged and the barn has tall air vents above the door heads. A later lean-to building, possibly used for machinery, now blocks access to the main barn door.

The farm buildings are listed as a group due to their attractive design and composition, representing the historic nucleus of the home farm and association with John Mirehouse, an agricultural improver. Eighteenth-century plans are referenced in records held by the Haverfordwest Record Office (D/Angle/70, 74, 78), along with the Tithe Survey of 1838.