Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Bennett's Navy Tavern
Fishguard and Goodwick, Pembrokeshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 24 November 1978
- Locality
- Fishguard
- Town
- Fishguard
- Community
- Fishguard and Goodwick
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.99323, -4.97744
- Cadw reference
- 26078
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 on the street between Nos 18 and 22.
History
Earlier C19 commercial premises now inn, formerly occupied by G Bennett & Co, wine and spirit importers and merchants, established in 1823. Building marked on 1844 tithe map. Apparently built as house and commercial premises, it retains an exceptionally rare Georgian shopfront with bowed shop-windows.
Exterior
Inn, colourwashed roughcast and stucco dressings with slate close-eaved roofs. Two-storey, 3-bay main range with end stacks, left stack rubble stone and right stack roughcast. Low one-window range to left, a service range. Stuccoed door and windows surrounds and broad below first floor sills. Three first floor 12-pane sash windows in eared surrounds and one similiar to ground floor right. House door slightly right of centre, 6-panel with 4 fielded panels and overlight. Window and door surrounds have keystones. To left is fine earlier C19 double shopfront with 16-pane bow-windows flanking doorway with double half-glazed doors and overlight, all in casing of pilasters and cornice. Steps to cellar to right enclosed by C19 iron gate and railings with scrolled finials, the gate with dog bars.
Lower possible service wing to left with 6-pane sash over 16-pane sash, first floor band continued across. Small stone and brick left end stack.
Rear cross-wing to main house with slate-hung SW wall and with a sash window with glazing bars on first floor in both NE and SW elevations.
Reason for designation
Included as earlier C19 commercial premises with exceptional Georgian double shopfront.
Nearby in the register
- 21 High StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 16 High StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 21a High StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- Cartref HotelDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.