Wales · Restored
St Brides Castle
Castell Sain Ffrêd
St Brides Castle is a 19th-century castellated baronial-style country house in Pembrokeshire, Wales, enlarged in the early 20th century. It combines rubble-stone walls with red sandstone additions, crenellated parapets and towers, and sits within designed lawns and gardens. The house was converted to institutional use in the 20th century and later to holiday apartments.
Its prime
1913
Today
Restored
As it stood in 1913
What St Brides Castle looked like in its prime.
A two- and four-storey castellated mansion of grey rubble stone with red sandstone additions, under slate roofs. The silhouette shows multiple crenellated parapets, square and a prominent round tower with a corbelled top, tall vertically proportioned windows and a projecting red-sandstone bay. The façades are pierced by regular sash windows and some ivy; the house sits back from an open lawn framed by mature trees and specimen planting, rooflines stepped by the differing storey heights.
Its story
The story of St Brides Castle.
St Brides Castle is a 19th-century castellated mansion in baronial style in the parish of St Brides, Pembrokeshire, its rubble-stone walls carrying red sandstone additions, crenellated parapets and towers within designed lawns and gardens. The house was acquired by the 5th Baron Kensington in 1899 and enlarged between 1905 and 1913 for the 6th Baron, who sold it in 1920.
The historian Nikolaus Pevsner suggested the architect may have been Thomas Rowlands, and described the early-20th-century expansion for Lord Kensington as "the last major country house work in Pembrokeshire". The house was converted to institutional use in the 20th century, and later into holiday apartments.
Step inside
5 places to explore in 1913.
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Clans who held St Brides Castle.
The families that held St Brides Castle for a decade or more across its history, follow a name to its clan.
Kensington
Held by the Barons Kensington, 1899–1920; enlarged 1905–13 for the 6th Baron.
