Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Hangar and Annexes
Pembroke Dock, Pembrokeshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Defence
- Date of designation
- 18 February 1994
- Locality
- The Dockyard
- Community
- Pembroke Dock
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.69470, -4.95163
- Cadw reference
- 14387
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 on E side of main Dockyard avenue, SE of Sunderland House.
History
1934-5 large 'B' type hangar, built as one of a pair for maintenance of RAF seaplanes.
Exterior
Riveted steel girder frame, 162ft 7ins by 121ft 4ins (49.53m x 36.96m) with saw-tooth ridged roof of half-bays each end and 5 between. Concrete-encased steel piers 59ft 9ins (18.21m) high to angles and up to each gable apex, steel uprights between. Concrete infill between to a height of 30 ft. (9.14m) and corrugated iron cladding to upper half. Steel gantry around below gables. E front clear opening of 160 ft by 40 ft (48.76m x 12.19m) with six large rolling steel doors with spaced steel plating to allow gravel infill against bomb fragments. Rendered and painted two-storey flat-roofed range on S side, single storey ranges to W and N.
Reason for designation
One of only two surviving seaplane hangars of this type in England and Wales (there were two overseas at Gibraltar and Seletar). Base opened 1930 and two squadrons were deployed initially, more in wartime when the base played a major role in convoy protection. Closed 1959, the last flying-boat withdrawn February 1957.
Nearby in the register
- Sunderland HouseCommercialunder 1 mi
- Former Guard HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- The Old StorehouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Former Captain Superintendent's OfficeCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.