Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Arch House
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
- No class recorded
- Date of designation
- 28 March 2002
- Town
- Tenby
- Community
- Tenby
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.67112, -4.70035
- Cadw reference
- 26333
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 towards W end between the Olde Gifte Shoppe and premises occupied by Five Arches Gifts.
History
Commercial premises with flat over, probably earlier C19 in origin altered in later C19 and C20. Occupied in 2001 by Arch House jewellers.
Exterior
House and shop, painted stucco with hipped close-eaved roof. Three storeys, 2 bays, with 2 hornless 12-pane sashes to upper floor, 2 later C19 canted oriels to first floor and C20 shopfront. Oriels have 2-4-2-pane sashes with moulded cornices. Ground floor is plain rendered with plate-glass shop windows.
Reason for designation
Included as an altered earlier C19 building of group value in the row of buildings up to the Five Arches gate.
Nearby in the register
- Premises occupied by Five Arches GiftsDomesticunder 1 mi
- Premises occupied by Ye Olde Gifte ShoppeCommercialunder 1 mi
- The Bush InnCommercialunder 1 mi
- Tenby Town WallsDefenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.