Old Bread Oven attached to Rowston Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 14 May 1970. Former house.
Old Bread Oven attached to Rowston Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- buried-zinc-moss
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Pembrokeshire Coast National Park
- Constituency
- Mid and South Pembrokeshire MP: Henry Tufnell (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 14 May 1970
- Type
- Former house
- OS grid reference
- SR 991 972
- Coordinates
- 51.63843, -4.90339
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Rowston Farmhouse, which includes an attached Old Bread Oven, is an 18th-century house located 500 meters east of Stackpole Elidyr church. The building faces north towards the farmyard and consists of two storeys plus cellars in a semi-basement. Originally, there was a large chimney at the west end, but only the wall and an oven remain today. This oven is part of a very large semi-circular extension that is rendered and topped with a gabled and slated roof. The kitchen that served this oven has been demolished.
An early rear wing extends to the south and features a gable on its south elevation. The space between this wing and the main part of the house was filled in during the 19th century to create a double-pile house, likely in the late 1860s when the adjacent farm buildings were constructed.
The building is finished with rough-cast render. On the north elevation, there are 18th-century sash windows on the ground storey, with eight-pane casements above. Above the door, there is a 20th-century reconstruction of an 18th-century sash window. The semi-basement contains louvred openings leading to the dairy.
This farmhouse is listed for its group value with Rowston Farmyard.
Local climate
Old Bread Oven attached to Rowston Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,160 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% 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 3 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 99% 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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