Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Dry Dock in Yard occupied by Haven Yachts
Pembroke Dock, Pembrokeshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Maritime
- Date of designation
- 18 February 1994
- Community
- Pembroke Dock
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.69546, -4.94378
- Cadw reference
- 14355
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 in walled yard, opposite Nos 32 to 38 Front Street.
History
Mid C19 shipbuilding slip, built for one of the private shipbuilders operating outside the Royal Dockyard.
Exterior
Rock-faced limestone walls and coping, curved south end with SW steps down. Three narrow ledges on W side, none on E. C20 metal N end gates.
Reason for designation
The only survivor of the four shipbuilding yards along the foreshore E of the dockyard, three much larger slips stood to E at foot of Meyrick Street. All four are marked on 1877 map.
Nearby in the register
- 33 Front StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 27 Front StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 10 Front StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- North East Dockyard TowerDefenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.