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Latitude: 52.0264 / 52°1'35"N
Longitude: -4.817 / 4°49'1"W
OS Eastings: 206833
OS Northings: 240192
OS Grid: SN068401
Mapcode National: GBR CS.GFTV
Mapcode Global: VH2MZ.GB9D
Plus Code: 9C4Q25GM+H5
Entry Name: Berry Hill House
Listing Date: 27 October 1992
Last Amended: 27 October 1992
Grade: II*
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 12757
Building Class: Domestic
ID on this website: 300012757
Location: Situated on E side of road running N from Penybont Bridge, some 1 km N of bridge.
County: Pembrokeshire
Community: Nevern (Nanhyfer)
Community: Nevern
Traditional County: Pembrokeshire
Tagged with: Building
Early C19 small country house, under construction 1810, built for the Bowens of Llwyngwair.
House was built for William Bowen (1761-1822), third son of George Bowen of Llwyngwair. Occupied by Reverend.D.Griffiths, vicar of Nevern (died 1834).
Square rubble stone with some banding, roughcast to rear, with hipped slate roofs and stone ridge stacks. L-plan. Main front has two-storey three-window front of 12-pane sashes with slate sills and cut stone voussoirs. Centre door in tall square-headed doorcase, with flush-panelled 6-panel door and fanlight with radiating bars. Reeded timber pilasters each side. C20 hipped roughcast porch. Paired brackets to eaves. Two stacks on ridge. E front is similar 3-window range, with two ridge stacks. W end has tall pointed stair light with glazing bar sash and traceried head. Rear court is roughcast, with blank N wall to main house and two-window range to W-facing return.
House has unaltered early C19 interiors with plaster cornices, six-panel doors, window shutters and fireplaces complete. Entrance hall runs through to spine hall with plaster arches. SE room has black slate fireplace and W wall arched recess with horizontally fluted pilasters. SW room has white marble fireplace and acanthus cornice with grape scroll ceiling border. Small E side room with dado panelling and cast-iron Regency-style grate. At W end is dog-leg stair with stick balusters, moulded rail and scroll brackets to tread ends. Ceiling with plaster cornice and rose. Upper spine corridor has ceiling in panels between elliptical arches on console brackets. Plaster cornices. Vaulted cellar under W side.
A fine example of a small Regency-style country house, little altered apart from porch and removal of roughcast on main elevations.
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