Lamphey House (also known as the Old Malthouse) is a Grade II listed building in the Pembrokeshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 14 May 1970. House.
Lamphey House (also known as the Old Malthouse)
- WRENN ID
- unlit-mortar-rowan
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Constituency
- Mid and South Pembrokeshire MP: Henry Tufnell (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 14 May 1970
- Type
- House
- Address
- Lamphey House (also known as the Old Malthouse), Lamphey Village
- OS grid reference
- SN 018 006
- Coordinates
- 51.66924, -4.8672
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Lamphey House, also known as the Old Malthouse, is a single-fronted house dating from around 1800. It stands two storeys high and features a two-window range on the front facade, with the entrance located on the right side. Although it is called the Old Malthouse, the house itself was not a malthouse.
The exterior is constructed of rubble masonry, which has been recently re-rendered, and it has a slate roof. A chimney made of red bricks is present, along with a timber eaves cornice at the front that includes small decorative brackets. The window frames are recessed and feature hornless six-pane sash windows. The entrance door consists of six panels, with the bottom two being flush, and is fitted with brass door furniture. The reveals around the door are plain and have been restored, which included the removal of an early 20th-century door casing. Above the door is a semi-elliptical cast iron and lead fanlight, and there are two stone steps leading up to the entrance.
At the front of the property, there is a low garden wall topped with wrought-iron railing and a gate, featuring cast-iron finials in the shape of urns at the top of the standards.
Inside, the entrance hallway showcases decorative ceiling plasterwork. The staircase has a cut string design with return nosing over ornamental string-brackets, and features two square balusters per tread, along with a swept mahogany handrail that coils at the foot. An arch and fanlight lead to the corridor at the rear. The door to the main reception room at the front is made of six panels and has a reeded architrave and a small cornice. In the front room, there is a good 19th-century cast-iron fireplace, and a furniture recess is located in the rear wall. There are also 19th-century fireplaces in the upstairs rooms.
The house includes cellars at both the front and rear. The rear cellar has a segmental vault, while the front cellar contains a fireplace made partly from kiln floor bricks, which may have been salvaged from the former maltings that give the site its name.
Local climate
Lamphey House (also known as the Old Malthouse) 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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