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Latitude: 52.0155 / 52°0'55"N
Longitude: -4.8347 / 4°50'4"W
OS Eastings: 205574
OS Northings: 239026
OS Grid: SN055390
Mapcode National: GBR CR.H3G6
Mapcode Global: VH2MZ.4LYR
Plus Code: 9C4Q2588+64
Entry Name: Major House
Listing Date: 14 April 1992
Last Amended: 14 April 1992
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 12513
Building Class: Domestic
ID on this website: 300012513
Location: Situated on corner of Mill Lane, opposite Bethlehem Baptist Chapel.
County: Pembrokeshire
Community: Newport (Trefdraeth)
Community: Newport
Built-Up Area: Newport
Traditional County: Pembrokeshire
Tagged with: House
Earlier C19 2-storey house and service wing, whitewashed roughcast rubble stone with slate roofs. L-plan with stone end and ridge stacks to main house and red brick ridge stack and W end stack to service wing (now Major Lodge). Main house has E front 3-window range of 12-pane sashes with slate sills and painted stucco labels similar to those on Nos 3 and 4 opposite. Fine 6-panel door with 4 fielded panels, panelled reveals, and plain overlight; carved scrolled wooden panel over door head. Attractive painted timber pedimental open porch on slim bulbous columns with half-column responds, scrolled brackets to capitals, and fretted bargeboards to pediment. Roughcast N wall and rubble rear with stair projection.
Major Lodge has N front with roof at matching height, casement windows with top-lights and similar stucco labels. Triple casement each floor to left, door and small casement pair to ground floor right and casement pair with top-lights to first floor right. Door has oval glazed panel and is open pedimental porch, two thin iron posts and slate gable. Raised stucco door surround. Garage on W end wall.
Porch of main house is one of a group of attractively unorthodox variations on classical types to be found in Newport: see Victoria Lodge, West St; Ivy House, East St; J J Brown premises, Market St; Carningli, East St and Bethlehem Baptist Chapel.
Group value with listed buildings opposite.
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