Blackaldern is a Grade II listed building in the Pembrokeshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 17 May 1988. Country house.

Blackaldern

WRENN ID
keen-roof-tallow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Pembrokeshire
Constituency
Mid and South Pembrokeshire MP: Henry Tufnell (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
17 May 1988
Type
Country house
Address
Blackaldern, Narberth
OS grid reference
SN 119 142
Coordinates
51.7948, -4.72822
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Blackaldern is a small country house built in the early to mid-19th century, featuring two stories and a cellar. It has later 19th-century extensions and additions. The exterior is made of roughcast rubble set on a plinth, topped with a hipped slate roof. The garden front has four bays, with three windows and a five-sided angular bay on the top left that has slate hung on the first floor. The windows are 12-pane sash windows with stone sills and plain reveals. The entrance is located on the right flank of the angular bay, featuring a Tudor arch with a returned label and a recessed, panelled entry. There is one window on the right elevation, and a later 19th-century canted bay on the left end. At the rear, there is a five-window cross range with similar fenestration. A small, lofted outhouse with a stepped chimney is located at the extreme rear, along with a low gabled extension to the right rear that has a tall chimney and small paned windows framing sidelights to the doorway.

Adjoining to the west is a later structure.

Inside, the house features four-panel doors, panelled reveals, and shutters on the windows. There is a contemporary dog leg staircase with a spiral newel, along with later Georgian chimney pieces and cornices.

Local climate

Blackaldern sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,170 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 follow 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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