Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
The Greyhound Inn
Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 1 July 1974
- Town
- Haverfordwest
- Community
- Haverfordwest
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.80187, -4.97250
- Cadw reference
- 12194
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1608 "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Facing W to Mariners Square.
History
Early to mid C19 inn, recorded in 1884 directory. The inn includes No 14 Dark Street which is listed separately and faces Mariners Square. Perrot Avenue was known as St Martin's Place in 1884.
Exterior
Inn, painted stucco with slate close-eaved roof and red brick end wall stacks, the right end stack on the taller end wall of Nos 14-14A Dark Street. Three storeys, three bays. Square upper windows, the centre one blind, the others with horned 6-pane sashes. Four-pane sashes to first and ground floors, with centre doorway in plain stuccoed eared surround. Six-panel flush-panelled door with plain overlight. Continuous to right is Nos 14-14A Dark St with one bay to Perrot Avenue and two bays at obtuse angle, to Mariners Square. Slightly higher eaves with roof hipped at angle. Six-pane sash to top floor and 12-pane sash to first floor to Perrot Avenue, both windows at a higher level than those of main building. Corner is curved with painted tooled stone at ground floor right.
To Mariners Square a three-storey, two-window range with square 6-pane sashes to top floor and horned 12-pane sashes to first floor. On ground floor a big and altered opening to centre right giving access to two doorways within, that to left with C20 door and older overlight providing access to the Greyhound Inn, boarded door straight ahead. To left a C20 small two-light shop window and doorway.
Interior
Interior altered on ground floor.
Reason for designation
Included for its special architectural interest as a stuccoed facade in late Georgian style.
Nearby in the register
- 14 Dark StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- 13 Dark StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- 12 Dark StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 11 Dark StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.