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Latitude: 52.0155 / 52°0'55"N
Longitude: -4.8368 / 4°50'12"W
OS Eastings: 205426
OS Northings: 239032
OS Grid: SN054390
Mapcode National: GBR CR.H2XG
Mapcode Global: VH2MZ.3LTR
Plus Code: 9C4Q2587+67
Entry Name: Abertawe House, including back cottage
Listing Date: 6 July 2005
Last Amended: 6 July 2005
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 84392
Building Class: Domestic
ID on this website: 300084392
Location: Towards the west end of the street, on its southern side, immediately west of Westgate.
County: Pembrokeshire
Town: Newport
Community: Newport (Trefdraeth)
Community: Newport
Built-Up Area: Newport
Traditional County: Pembrokeshire
Tagged with: Cottage
A substantial urban villa, thought to have been built in 1892, though perhaps replacing an earlier house on the site (the back cottage is likely to pre-date the main house).
Main house fronts the street, and at the rear, is linked by a length of rubble wall with quartizte copings to a smaller back cottage or service building facing the main house across a yard. Villa in a mildly gothic style, 2 storeyed with attics, and 3-bays. Scribed render with rusticated quoins to main elevation, rubble exposed in rear wall and gable ends. Slate roof with cresting and finials, yellow brick gable end stacks. Main elevation has narrow central bay with doorway in architrave with decorative panels (apparently incorporating coal or coke), and is flanked by full-height canted bays with 4-pane sash windows beneath broad dormer gables. Central window over doorway is also a 4-pane sash, and has similar decorated architrave, as do the tall attic windows. Wide gables have decorated barge-boards. Cast iron rainwater goods with embossed mask detail.
2-storeyed cottage to rear is of rubble with brick heads and quoins to 4-pane sash windows; slate roof with brick stack to left-hand gable. Rear elevation has mainly 4-pane sashes including stair window at centre.
Listed as an especially good example of the late C19 villa, characteristic of Newport, as of other west Wales port towns. Abertawe House retains its original character virtually intact, and thus nicely illustrates the rich decorative vocabulary employed in houses of this status.
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