Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
The Smoke House
Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in The Docks, Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire, designated on 20 August 1975.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 20 August 1975
- Locality
- The Docks
- Community
- Milford Haven
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.71120, -5.03340
- Cadw reference
- 12828
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1865 · England and Wales. England No. 6. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 227 Milford (Outline) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 227 Milford (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Situated on quay to east of floating dock, some 100m E of Cosalt building.
History
l905 fish-smoking house, the first built at Milford.
Exterior
Tall rectangular rubble stone building with red brick dressings and asymmetrically pitched slate roof with derelict raised ventilator on ridge. The building has two storeys of windows on S side to docks and a long sloping roof up to ridge which is close by the tall windowless N wall. Red brick corners and window surrounds. S front has two floors of cambered-headed 9-pane windows with iron glazing bars, six-window range. E end wall has window and door to ground floor, three windows to first floor and outside chimney in red brick, to left of door. West end has similar windows. N side has one door at each corner and one to first floor right.
Interior
Slate flagged ground floor with doors on N wall to smoke chambers.
Reason for designation
An important relic of the development of Milford as a fishing port from cl900.
Nearby in the register
- 32 Hamilton TerraceDomesticunder 1 mi
- 31 Hamilton TerraceDomesticunder 1 mi
- The War MemorialCommemorativeunder 1 mi
- 30 Hamilton TerraceDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.