Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Surrounding Wall
Pembroke Dock, Pembrokeshire, Wales
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
- 51.70049, -4.93648
- Cadw reference
- 14361
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
Situed on cliff footpath some 150m NNE of South Pembrokeshire District Council offices.
History
1860 powder magazine built for Hut Encampment on Llanion Hill above.
Exterior
Brown tooled squared stone with grey limestone flush dressings. Twin-gabled N front with coped gables, grey stone quoins, and moulded corbels to high shoulders each side. One window above lean-to porches. Loops in side walls. Slate roofs. Interior contains two brick-vaulted chambers with some remaining dividing walls. High and impressive arched vaults.
Surrounding wall in grey limestone rubble, coped with cambered arched N doorway, rebated for missing doors. Datestone above. Set into side walls, within enclosure, at NE and NW corners are two brick vaulted chambers with stone-framed doors and windows. Quadripartite vaults.
The building is fireproof, the complex built into the excavated hillside, and the path in front was embanked, all to guard against blast. This was the main magazine for the barracks.
Poor condition.
Reason for designation
Listed as a good example of Victorian military engineering in conjunction with a major British naval base.
Nearby in the register
- Former Main MagazineDefenceunder 1 mi
- Former Cartridge Magazine and 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.