History

Villa of c1847-50, part of the small early C19 suburb developed from 1823 by Richard Rice Nash, alderman, the villas generally in the cottage style. This house, Broadmead and The Gables are similar in detail, with bargeboards and gables from the cottage orne style and some Gothic to Tudor detail. The original lease is said to date from 1847, and to be from William Richards of Croft House, requiring the lessee to build a house to the value of £500 or more. The house may have been double depth from the beginning, as the staircase is basically original, but this could have been moved. The bargeboards look later C19 and features such as the leaded glazing of top-lights, the stair-light and the stair rail look early C20. A photograph of 1890 in Tenby Museum shows the rear with ornate bargeboards to the left gable, octagonal chimneys on the ridge and right end, different detail to the bay window, and no staircase window. W H Montagu Leeds, High Sheriff of Pembs 1920-1, was owner in 1911 and in the 1920s.

Exterior

Villa, white-painted stucco with slate deep-eaved roofs, red terracotta ridge tiles and no chimneys. Two storeys, 3 bays with small 1-storey wing at right angles each end. Tudor Gothic style with large later C19 bargeboards, hoodmoulded casement windows with top-lights and Tudor detail to doorway and bay-window to left. Central 2-storey projecting porch with moulded four-centred arched doorway and French window above with top-lights and hoodmould opening onto a balcony on 3 curved wooden brackets with turned pendants. Thin lozenge-pattern balcony rail. Small depressed arched lights to ground floor side walls, double 2-panel doors. Left and right of porch are cross-windows, a casement pair with 4 top lights (as on The Gables and Broadmead) under hoodmould, the ground floor right window longer and with the top-lights Tudor-arched. Ground floor left canted bay window of 1-2-1 lights, similar to that on The Gables, the top-lights Tudor-arched, and moulded cornice under shallow hipped lead roof. To each side, gable-ended 1-storey pavilion each with coped gable and 3-light casement with Tudor-arched lights and hoodmould.
Parallel rear range of equivalent size, the E gable projecting beyond the E gable of the front range. Matching bargeboards. Garden front has gable to left with square bay window, 3-light French window to front and Tudor-arched single-lights to sides. Flat roof with C20 rails in front of first floor French window with top-lights and hoodmould. Three-bay right hand range has hoodmoulded ground floor cross-windows with Tudor arches to top-lights. Longer first floor left window lighting stair, also 2-light with top-lights, the other two are casement pairs with 4 small top lights, as on Broadmead and The Gables/ Gable End.
Attached to front right is altered L-plan former stable range, 2-storey with gable to right and detail to match main house.

Interior

Porch has encaustic tiles and glazed inner screen with half-glazed door. Entrance hall with staircase rising to rear right. Staircase has original scrolled tread ends, but c1900 cast-iron decorative rails and big panelled newel. Stair light has leaded coloured glazing also of c1900. Coved cornice to entrance hall and stair hall. Rear right room has early C20 fireplace but original ceiling border with thin panels ended in Gothic cusping and quatrefoil. Six-panel doors.

Reasons for Listing

Included as one of a group of mid C19 picturesque villas on Heywood Lane, part of a single development.

External Links

• Cadwr Listing
• Wikidata Q29485432

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