Scolton Manor is a Grade II* listedStructure of particular architectural and/or historic interest deserving of special protection. Victorian country house in Pembrokeshire, West Wales, northeast of Haverfordwest, on the borders of the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park.[1]
Built as a home for the Higgon family in 1840, the house is now a museum. Its stable court is a separately designated Grade II listed building.[1][2]
Colonel Higgon sold Scolton to the Welsh Church Fund in 1972, on the condition that it was to be run for the benefit and enjoyment of the public in perpetuity. It has since then been managed and operated by Pembrokeshire County Council.[3]
Architecture
The house was designed by William and James Owen of Haverfordwest, in a “restrained” neo-classical style, with slate-hipped roofs and overhanging eaves. There is a gabled service wing at the right of the building; outhouses to the north were demolished in the 1970s.[1]
Grounds
Scolton Manor is set in 60 acres (24 ha) of park and woodland.[4] The grounds, originally laid out in 1843, now include a Victorian walled garden, the Pembrokeshire Beekeeping Centre,[5] a pineapple house, which in 2018 produced what is believed to be the first pineapple grown in Wales for more than 100 years,[6] and Margaret, a Fox Walker & Co 0-6-0 locomotive supplied to the Maenclochog and Rosebush railway in 1878.[7][8] The gardens and parkland are designated Grade II on the Cadw Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in Wales.[9]