Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Premises occupied by Cofion bookshop
Tenby, Pembrokeshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Tenby, Pembrokeshire, designated on 28 March 2002.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 28 March 2002
- Town
- Tenby
- Community
- Tenby
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.67162, -4.69801
- Cadw reference
- 26325
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1865 · England and Wales. England No. 6. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Sheet 10. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. . (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 245 Pembroke (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Situated on corner of Bridge Street and Quay Hill.
History
Late C18 to early C19, altered c1900. Commercial premises on 2 floors with accommodation on 2 floors over, entered from Quay Hill. Old photographs show a whitewashed rubble front wall with ground floor lean-to also whitewashed, similar in form to the present building, but with gable chimney, smaller sash windows set slightly to right and ground floor lean-to with 12-pane sash to front, no doorway. The whole front wall was presumably rebuilt in grey stone with red brick dressings c1900. The property is also numbered Nos 1 and 2 Quay Hill, but No 1 Quay Hill is a different property, separately listed.
Exterior
House over commercial premises, grey limestone with red brick dressings and slate roof. Four storeys to Bridge Street, two storeys to Quay Hill. One-window gabled front with 8-pane window to each floor in red brick surround. Ground floor projecting shop with lean-to slate roof, the walls canted in to narrower front. Plastic C20 shopfront with red brick sides.
Quay Hill elevation, up steps to right, of 2 storeys, has windows set to right. Four-pane horned sash under eaves, small C20 window at mid level and also to right of C19 6-panel door with large overlight with marginal glazing bars.
Interior
Shop premises on ground floor with rear stair to first floor store. Upper floors reached by stair along rear wall, from Quay Hill entry.
Reason for designation
Included as a prominent corner building of group value with the Tudor Merchant's House and other listed buildings in Bridge Street and Quay Hill.
Nearby in the register
- Dolphin CottageDomesticunder 1 mi
- The Caldey Abbey ShopCommercialunder 1 mi
- The Tudor Merchant's HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Plantagenet HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.