Cattle Pound is a Grade II listed building in the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 12 March 1996. Church.
Cattle Pound
- WRENN ID
- winter-gravel-tarn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Pembrokeshire Coast National Park
- Constituency
- Mid and South Pembrokeshire MP: Henry Tufnell (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 12 March 1996
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Cattle Pound, Manorbier Village, Manorbier
- OS grid reference
- SS 068 979
- Coordinates
- 51.64717, -4.79331
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
This is a circular cattle-pound, likely dating to the late 18th century, based on its similarity to Castlemartin Pound dated 1780. The cattle-pound has a roughly coursed limestone rubble wall, approximately 9 meters in diameter and standing 1.8 meters high, with no coping. In 1840, the site was part of the Philipps estate and the cattle-pound was out of use by 1900.
A bier-house was built within the cattle-pound in 1900. It is constructed of limestone rubble masonry at the rear and snecked facing masonry at the front, serving as a cart shed. The gable and double-doors of the bier-house face the street. Internally the bier-house measures 2.4 meters wide by 4 meters long, with a slate roof, carved bargeboards with timber finials, framed, braced, ledged, and battened doors, and a segmental door-frame head. A brick segmental arch spans the rear doorway.
The area of the cattle-pound behind the bier-house is currently maintained as a public garden and the bier-house serves as an information point for local tourism. A cast-iron water hydrant, manufactured by Glenfield and Kennedy of Kilmarnock, stands in the street in front of the bier-house.
Local climate
Cattle Pound sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,190 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 4 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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