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Latitude: 51.7975 / 51°47'51"N
Longitude: -4.7427 / 4°44'33"W
OS Eastings: 210974
OS Northings: 214546
OS Grid: SN109145
Mapcode National: GBR CW.XVNB
Mapcode Global: VH2P5.R23V
Plus Code: 9C3QQ7X4+2W
Entry Name: The Former Courthouse
Listing Date: 8 November 1991
Last Amended: 8 November 1991
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 6558
Building Class: Domestic
ID on this website: 300006558
Location: Occupying a prominent site downhill from market square. Longer N side elevation to Picton Place.
County: Pembrokeshire
Community: Narberth (Arberth)
Community: Narberth
Built-Up Area: Narberth
Traditional County: Pembrokeshire
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Building started 1863 (foundation stone laid 1st June). Designed as a courthouse by Charles Reeves of London, HM surveyor of Police and county courts. Builders were MOrgan, Howell and Williams of Carmarthen (George Morgan later became famous as a Chapel builder of distinction). High Victorian classicism in the manner of Sir Charles Barry and Thomas Cubitt.
2-storey and attic public building. Three-plus-one bays to entrance front, four bays to right side. Limestone facings, bath stone dressings including flush-set quoins. Hipped slate roof over wide bracket cornice (brackets grouped in threes). Deep sill band linked upwards to attic window margins and downwards to keystones of tall round-arched windows on first-floor with panelled aprons. Moulded cornice over ground-floor keystones to segmental-arched windows with impost bands. Banded rustication to piers, recessed aprons, stugged masonry to lower courses. Sash windows with marginal glazing bars. Cast-stone Royal Arms on corbelled cornice to blocked first-floor opening over main entrance with double three-panel doors. Basement to lefthand bay stepping downhill, slate side elevation with stone stack above. Detailing as before to Picton Place front with smaller doors and slate-hung rear.
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