Bier House is a Grade II listed building in the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 12 March 1996. Bier house.
Bier House
- WRENN ID
- fallen-hinge-larch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Pembrokeshire Coast National Park
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 12 March 1996
- Type
- Bier house
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Bier House is a structure built in 1900, located within a circular cattle pound that measures about 9 meters in diameter. The cattle pound features a roughly coursed limestone rubble wall that stands approximately 1.8 meters high and lacks coping. While the exact date of the cattle pound's construction is unknown, it resembles Castlemartin Pound, which dates to 1780. By 1840, the site was part of the Philipps estate, and it had fallen into disuse by 1900.
The bier-house, primarily constructed of limestone rubble masonry at the rear and snecked facing masonry at the front, serves as a cart shed. It has its gable and double doors facing the street and measures 2.4 meters wide by 4 meters long internally. The roof is made of slate, and it features carved bargeboards with timber finials. The doors are framed, braced, ledged, and battened, with a segmental form head on the door frame. There is also a brick segmental arch above the rear doorway.
The interior of the cattle pound behind the bier-house has been maintained as a public garden, while the bier-house itself is used as an information point for local tourism. In front of the Bier House, there is a cast-iron water hydrant manufactured by Glenfield and Kennedy of Kilmarnock.
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