Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Kemendine and area railings
Tenby, Pembrokeshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 19 March 1951
- Town
- Tenby
- Community
- Tenby
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.67175, -4.69685
- Cadw reference
- 26293
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
Terraced house on S side of Bridge Street overlooking harbour, paired with Gwynne House to right.
History
Half of a stuccoed three-storey pair of c1830, with Gwynne House. Formerly numbered No 2 and Gwynne House No 3, but these numbers now used for houses at further end of Bridge Street.
Exterior
House, the left half of a symmetrical pair with Gwynne House, the pair of painted stucco lined as ashlar with parapet and hipped slate roof with brick stacks each side. Three storeys and basement, double-fronted with paired centre doors. One 16-pane sash window to first and second floors of each house, the first floor windows with early C19 Gothic iron guards. Second floor window of Kemendine has later plate glass sash. On ground floor, narrower 12-pane sash window to either side of paired centre doorways with single flight of slate steps. Good open-pedimented double doorcase with 3 thin columns; fielded panelled reveals and fielded panelled doors; semi-circular fanlights with fine metal tracery. Sash windows to basements, 4-pane to Kemendine, 12-pane to Gwynne House.
Earlier C19 area railings with wrought iron scrolls and standards with lotus-and-ball finials.
Interior
Front ground floor room retains similar cornice to Gwynne House.
Reason for designation
Included as one half of a well-preserved late Georgian pair of town-houses.
Nearby in the register
- Gwynne House, including area railingsDomesticunder 1 mi
- St Julian's HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- 1 St Julian's StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- WindermereDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.