Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Clifton Rock and garden wall along roadside.
Tenby, Pembrokeshire, Wales
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
- 51.67312, -4.70280
- Cadw reference
- 26359
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
Opposite Deer Park Baptist Church on the NE side of Greenhill Road.
History
Villa said to have been built in 1860 for George Chiles, wine merchant in the High Street and mayor of Tenby in 1903. George Chiles listed as occupant in 1926, but John Hughes in 1911.
Exterior
Detached house, unpainted stucco with slate deep-eaved roof and red brick left end stack. Two storeys, basement and attic, double fronted, with 2 shallow gables over 9-pane hornless sashes. Gables have ornate fretwork bargeboards. First floor has small hornless 12-pane sash to right and large canted oriel window to left of 4-16-4-panes with moulded cornice and hipped slate roof. Ground floor has 12-pane sash to left, 16-pane sash to right, and door between, slightly left of centre in C20 pedimented surround. All windows except oriel are in raised rusticated surrounds. Door has 4 long Tudor-arched panels and traceried overlight. Basement under left half only. Vermiculated rusticated quoins, also on gable end to road, which has plain overhanging verges and window each floor set to right.
Garden wall along roadside of some 20m length and about 2m height is of rubble stone roughly capped in cement. There are 2 low blocked openings with stone voussoirs, about 1 m high, one pointed to left and one round to right. Traces of at least one arrow loop. Openings have splayed reveals on garden side. Two C19 limestone gatepiers by the house.
Reason for designation
Included as C19 villa with ornate bargeboards and for historical interest of garden wall.
Nearby in the register
- Walls and railings to Deer Park Baptist ChurchGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Walmer House and front railings.Domesticunder 1 mi
- Deer Park Baptist ChurchReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- The Royal Playhouse CinemaRecreationalunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.