Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
159 Charles Street
Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 22 February 1993
- Community
- Milford Haven
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.71238, -5.02933
- Cadw reference
- 12820
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 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Situated at E end of Charles Street, the last five houses.
History
Part of an early C19 terrace remaining from a once uniform row of eight houses.
Charles Street was built from ca l797 according to the early leases in Milford Estate Co archive, now in Milford Museum.
Exterior
Roughcast with slate roofs, concrete tiles to No l59. Rendered stacks, brick to No l57. Each house is two-storey two-window with 12-pane sashes above and l6-pane sash below to left of arched doorway with door and radiating bar fanlight. All have low roughcast front wall with spearhead iron railings. Nos l55-9 have stucco door hoods, No l6l has stucco surrounds to door and windows. Nos l55 and l6l have 4-panel doors, the others C20 doors. No l57 has C20 windows.
Reason for designation
A surviving section of Georgian terraced houses from the early period of development in the town, and relatively unaltered, except for No l57 which is included for group value only.
Nearby in the register
- 157 Charles StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 161 Charles StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 155 Charles StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 163 Charles StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.