Treasurer's House is a Grade II listed building in the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 1 March 1963. House.
Treasurer's House
- WRENN ID
- stranded-lancet-falcon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Pembrokeshire Coast National Park
- Constituency
- Mid and South Pembrokeshire MP: Henry Tufnell (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 1 March 1963
- Type
- House
- Address
- Treasurer's House, St. David's and the Cathedral Close
- OS grid reference
- SM 750 255
- Coordinates
- 51.8828, -5.26924
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Treasurer's House is a two-storey building constructed from roughcast rubble stone. Originally designed with three windows, it was extended to four in the later 19th century, matching the original style. A colourwashed rubble stone service wing is located to the southwest. The main house features a slate roof with end stacks and a ridge stack at the original end wall. The original three-bay front has tripartite 4-12-4 pane sashes in the outer bays and a 20-pane sash in the centre, positioned above a flush-panelled four-panel door set in a painted timber doorcase with a shallow open pediment on elongated brackets. An eroded stone moulded course at the eaves, which may have originally been cyma-moulded, could be a remnant of an older building. The added eastern bay from the 19th century has similar tripartite sashes on each floor. The rear includes a 12-pane stair light and 4-pane sashes.
At the western end, there is a low one and a half storey cottage or service range known as Treasury Cottage, built from colourwashed rubble stone. This features a central ledged door with an overlight, a 6-pane window to the right, and two first-floor 9-pane sashes that break the eaves, with the left one possibly added later or renewed.
Historical records, including Joseph Lord's 1720 map, indicate that a northern wing of the medieval Treasurer's House existed on this site, along with a smaller western section where the service range is now located. However, the interiors currently show no signs of earlier structures, except for a unique feature: a long corridor that runs the length of the rear wall, as marked on the 1720 map. The building also contains an early 19th-century staircase with a circular newel and one room featuring a 19th-century iron grate in a plain wood surround.
Local climate
Treasurer's House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% 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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