Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
16 West Street
Fishguard and Goodwick, Pembrokeshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 24 November 1978
- Locality
- Fishguard
- Town
- Fishguard
- Community
- Fishguard and Goodwick
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.99449, -4.97731
- Cadw reference
- 26072
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
Situated some 100m NW of The Square, attached to No 14.
History
One half of a pair of large mid to later C19 houses, on site of buildings marked on 1844 tithe map.
Exterior
The left half of a large semi-detached pair of houses with ground floor shops. Painted stucco cladding, parallel slate roofs, with street-facing gables, fretted bargeboards and ridge finials, and a central stack on ridge of each range. Tall 2-storey and attic, 4-window range, with a paired sash window to each gable of 2 narrow plate glass sashes and 4 4-pane sash windows of matching size to first floor, 2 to each house. Ground floor C20 shop-windows, a wide plate glass shop window to No 16 and a smaller tripartite sash window to No 14, a restoration since 1978. In centre, broad open porch with 2 columns and 2 responds of painted stone and cornice in wood. Porch set on raised slate paving slabs with steps up and iron railings linking 2 columns. Paired doorways, C20 panelled door to No 16 and C20 glazed door to No 14 both with plain overlight.
Rubble stone left end wall with centre first floor window.
Reason for designation
Included with No 14 as a mid to later C19 pair of houses prominently sited.
Nearby in the register
- 14 West StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- Seaways BookshopDomesticunder 1 mi
- The Old Post OfficeDomesticunder 1 mi
- Halifax Building SocietyCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.