Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Former Cartridge Magazine and surrounding wall
Pembroke Dock, Pembrokeshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Pembroke Dock, Pembrokeshire, designated on 18 February 1994.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Defence
- Date of designation
- 18 February 1994
- Community
- Pembroke Dock
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.70027, -4.93678
- Cadw reference
- 14358
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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)
- 1891 · Sheet 10. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. . (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 228 Haverfordwest (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Situated on footpath some 150m N of South Pembrokeshire District Council offices, adjacent to Powder Magazine.
History
1975-6 magazine for ammunition storage built for Hut Encampment on Llanion Hill.
The building is fireproof, built into excavated hillside and with path in front embanked to guard against blast. The use of mass concrete and the arched side buttressing are structurally interesting. The building was designed to hold either 3 million ball and blank cartridges, or 1200 full barrels of powder (or 4,500 half barrels). It cost ú1197.
Exterior
Mass concrete construction, single storey with gabled slate roof and four big arched buttresses each side, linking to surrounding retaining wall. N front has lean-to porch with side entry. S end has roundel window.
Front wall with gateway continued W from surrounding wall of Main Magazine, but in concrete.
Interior
Interior tunnel-vaulted in brick.
Nearby in the register
- Former Main MagazineDefenceunder 1 mi
- Surrounding WallDefenceunder 1 mi
- Slipway & Quay Wall at Hobb's PointMaritimeunder 1 mi
- Two Bollards on N Side of QuayGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.