Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Hangar & 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
- 51.69431, -4.94890
- Cadw reference
- 14388
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 some 100m SW of eastern entry to dockyard and 100m N of former chapel.
History
1934-5 'B' type large hangar built for servicing RAF seaplanes.
Exterior
Rivetted steel girder frame 162ft 7ins (49.53m) by 121ft 4ins (36.96m) with saw-tooth ridged roof of half bays each end and 5 between. Concrete-encased steel piers to angles and up to each gable apex, 59ft 9ins (18.21m) high, steel uprights between. Concrete infill between to 30ft (9.14m) and corrugated iron cladding to upper half. Iron gantry around below gables. Full-height opening on W front, giving clear opening of 160ft by 40ft (48.76m by 12.19m) closed by 6 large rolling steel doors with spaced steel plating to allow infill of gravel to 20ft (6.09m) to absorb bomb fragments. Rendered brick 2-storey flat-roofed range along N side.
Reason for designation
One of only two surviving sea-plane hangars of this type in England and Wales. Base opened 1930 and two squadrons were based here initially, more in wartime when it played a major role in convoy protection. The base closed in 1959, the last flying boats being withdrawn February 1957.
Old photographs suggest that this was originally built as two bays with half bays each end, and enlarged to match No. 1 hangar before 1938.
Nearby in the register
- The Dockyard WallsMaritimeunder 1 mi
- 18 Commercial RowCommercialunder 1 mi
- Former Dockyard ChapelReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- 27 & 27ACommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.