Pinfold Manor

Shortly after 6am on 19 February 1913, the almost completed house was bombed by militant suffragettes from the Women's Social and Political Union. Two bombs were planted: one failed to explode, but the detonation of the second bomb caused significant damage to the house. The bombers were not identified, but Sylvia Pankhurst named Emily Davison in her memoirs, and it has been suggested that Norah Smyth or Olive Hockin may also have been involved. That evening, Emmeline Pankhurst claimed responsibility at a public meeting at Cory Hall, Cardiff, saying: "We have blown up the Chancellor of the Exchequer's house … to wake him up". After this admission, she was arrested for the first time. She…

The two-storey house is constructed from silver-grey bricks, with red brick dressings at the corners around windows, and a roof of red clay tiles. The main entrance front faces to the north, with a service wing at the east end, which was extended to the north and east soon after the initial construction was completed. The entrance is framed by red brick pilasters, with sash windows to either side under curved brick heads. The other main frontage faces the garden to the south. The red tiles of the roof run down to a single-storey loggia supported by square brick columns, which continues to the east under two tile-hung gables. A third gabled bay to the east is faced in silver grey and red…