Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Myrtle 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
- 51.67054, -4.69892
- Cadw reference
- 26421
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 50m N of the junction with the Paragon.
History
House now hotel, c1870-80, built to similar style as the smaller Battersea House adjoining, and with similarities to houses of the period in Victoria Street. Probably built by Wm Davies of Tenby, builder (cf detail in Victoria Street). Occupied by Miss Lea 1926.
Exterior
House, painted stucco and slate roof with end brick stack. Three-storeys, double-fronted, similar to Myrtle House adjoining. Four-pane sashes to top floor under eaves, first floor pair of large canted oriel window with 2-4-2-pane glazing, cornices, hipped slate roofs and chamfered bases. Ground floor centre 6-panel door with overlight in stucco pilastered doorcase with entablature and cornice. Four-pane large sash each side. Iron flower guards made by Priory Foundry, Caramrthen. Raised plinth.
Interior
Inner lobby with acanthus rose, inner door with overlight. Hall arch on ornate plaster corbels. Stair has large bulbous turned newel, ramped rail, stick balusters, and moulded tread ends.
Reason for designation
Included with Battersea House as good later C19 pair of houses with surviving detail
Nearby in the register
- Battersea HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Woodbine CottageDomesticunder 1 mi
- Vine CottageDomesticunder 1 mi
- Former Presbyterian ChurchReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.