Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Battersea House
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
- 51.67059, -4.69896
- Cadw reference
- 26420
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
On the W side of St Mary's Street some 55m N of the junction with the Paragon.
History
House of the 1870s, similar to, but smaller than Myrtle House adjoining. Probably built by Wm Davies of Tenby, builder (cf detail in Victoria Street).
Exterior
House, painted stucco and slate roof with right end brick stack. Three-storeys, two-window range offset to left. Four-pane sashes, top floor sashes shorter than those on Myrtle House, and under eaves. First floor right large canted oriel window with 2-4-3-pane glazing, hipped slate roof and chamfered base. Door to left in stucco pilastered doorcase with entablature and cornice. 4-panel door and overlight, in chamfered and stopped surrounds.
Reason for designation
Included with Myrtle House as good later C19 pair of houses with surviving detail
Nearby in the register
- Myrtle HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Woodbine CottageDomesticunder 1 mi
- St Mary's HouseCommercialunder 1 mi
- Vine CottageDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.