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
- Constituency
- Mid and South Pembrokeshire MP: Henry Tufnell (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 12 March 1996
- Type
- Bier house
- Address
- Bier House, Manorbier Village, Manorbier
- OS grid reference
- SS 068 979
- Coordinates
- 51.6472, -4.79334
- 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.
Local climate
Bier House 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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