Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Premises occupied by Five Arches Gifts
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
- 51.67110, -4.70044
- Cadw reference
- 26413
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 on the S side of St George's Street between the junction with Lower Frog Street and the town wall.
History
Shop premises, c 1860, of one 2-storey, 4-bay build with the Bush Inn adjoining. Not shown in engraving of 1856, but shown in guide-book of 1863. Old photographs show 12-pane sashes upstairs, 4-pane sash in right bay of ground floor, door in middle bay, flanked by pilasters and small shopfront to left.
Exterior
House and shop, white painted stucco with slate close-eaved roof, 2 storeys, 3 bays (of matching 4-bay range with the Bush Inn). First floor plate glass sashes over ground floor shop with continuous entablature and cornice over. Thin pilaster at extreme left and 2 blocks in frieze indicating sites of 2 other pilasters, removed for shop window. A fourth remains on the Bush Inn, to right. Four-panel door with overlight to left and shop with C20 glazing each side of recessed door, narrow pane to left, wide to right.
Reason for designation
Included as part of a single range with the Bush Inn, of group value with the medieval Five Arches beyond.
Nearby in the register
- The Bush InnCommercialunder 1 mi
- Arch HouseNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Premises occupied by Ye Olde Gifte ShoppeCommercialunder 1 mi
- Tenby Town WallsDefenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.