Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
St Catherine's House, including area railings
Tenby, Pembrokeshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Tenby, Pembrokeshire, designated on 3 March 1961.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 3 March 1961
- Town
- Tenby
- Community
- Tenby
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.67228, -4.69611
- Cadw reference
- 6110
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 to the SW of Castle Hill, on the N side of the approach to the castle remains and just to the E of Castle Square.
History
One of a matching pair of houses said to date from 1861. Possibly built as coastguard houses as the Corporation in 1858 expressed regret to the Admiralty that such houses should be proposed on Castle Hill. Buildings are marked on the site on the 1849 map.
Exterior
House, left half of a pair of houses. Painted stucco with slate roofs, end stacks and ridge stack. Four storeys, basement and attic, each house of 2 window range with raised quoins, bands above ground, 2nd and 3rd floors, and parapet corbelled on paired plain blocks. Two gabled dormers each. Four-pane sashes to upper floor and inner bay of each house above doors in rusticated surrounds. Two-panel doors with overlights. Outer bays have 2-storey canted oriels with cornices and 2-4-2-pane sashes to first and second floors and ground floor broad tripartite 2-4-2-pane sash. Similar tripartite sash to basement, altered on No 2.
Slate-hung end walls and rear, the slate-hanging renewed in late C20. Rear is slate-hung to upper 3 storeys, with 12-pane sashes to each floor in outer bays, the centre bays with projected section presumably added, to upper floors. Dormers behind parapet.
Area railings have uprights with fleur-de-lys finials.
Interior
Entrance hall with staircase at back, stair with thick bulbous newel.
Reason for designation
Included as a very prominent and substantial mid Victorian pair of stuccoed houses of townscape importance.
Nearby in the register
- Harbour HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- No 2 St Catherine's and area railingsDomesticunder 1 mi
- 2 Castle SquareDomesticunder 1 mi
- Whitesands GateDefenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.