Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Rocket Cart House
Angle, Pembrokeshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Maritime
- Date of designation
- 26 January 1996
- Locality
- Hardings Hill
- Community
- Angle
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.67047, -5.06849
- Cadw reference
- 17166
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 1608 "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
At N side of B4320 road.
History
Built at the end of the C19, the Rocket Cart House (Board of Trade Rocket Apparatus Station no. 11) was the base for the cliff-rescue team with rockets, lines and breeches-buoys. It was in use until the 1930s, with a team of about 20 rescuers. In about 1970 it was taken as a holiday house and underwent minor alterations. It consists of a cart house originally with double-doors and a three-storey look-out tower. The whole site is at the N of the road, raised about 0.5 m above the adjacent field level and enclosed on three sides by a red brick wall about 1 m high. At front is a stone-block paved hardstanding area.
Exterior
Cart house, now a dwelling house: one storey plus attic. S gable faces the road. Smooth render, painted, over original facing-brickwork. Slate roof. Doors and windows renovated.
Enclosure wall: original red-brick wall in Flemish Bond, local bricks.
Interior
Fireplace in N gable has been cut away for insertion of a large bay window.
Reason for designation
Listed as a very prominent local landmark on a raised vantage point and as a significant monument to the Coastguard Service.
Nearby in the register
- Lookout TowerMaritimeunder 1 mi
- Gravel Bay anti-aircraft batteryBatteryunder 1 mi
- War MemorialCommemorativeunder 1 mi
- Devil's Quoit Burial ChamberChambered Tombunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.