Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Romola House
Tenby, Pembrokeshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 26 April 1977
- Town
- Tenby
- Community
- Tenby
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.67119, -4.69806
- Cadw reference
- 6122
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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 Cob Lane at the junction with St Julian's Street.
History
C19 stuccoed house of two storeys and two bays with late C19 to early C20 shopfront. Shop occupied by Shellfish Bar in 1977, and by Naomi Tydeman Gallery 2001, flat above.
Exterior
House and shop, stucco with close-eaved slate roof and small brick left end stack. Two-storey, 2- window range, offset to left, with 4-pane sashes above, and house door to ground floor left, C20 with overlight and shop-front to right. Shop front is late C19 with pilasters and corniced fascia framing 3-pane shop-window with door recessed to right. Shop-window has 2 thin vertical bars and third pane is canted in. Door is C20 with overlight.
Interior
Ground floor shop without significant historical features. Enclosed staircase to flat above from front door.
Reason for designation
Included as smaller house with C19 shopfront in central location in Tenby.
Nearby in the register
- Jubilee HouseCommercialunder 1 mi
- China CottageCommercialunder 1 mi
- Ivy HouseCommercialunder 1 mi
- The Buccaneer InnCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.