Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Cellar under roadway, reached from Jasperley House.
Tenby, Pembrokeshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 19 March 1951
- Town
- Tenby
- Community
- Tenby
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.67204, -4.69997
- Cadw reference
- 6174
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
Situated under the High Street on a line from Jasperley House to Barclays Bank.
History
Cellar thought to stand on the site of the house of Thomas White, a mayor of Tenby in the C15 who lies buried in the Church. Access from hatch in floor of Boots premises to tunnel running SW.
Interior
Cellar with walls of rubble and arched roof, of dressed stone or possibly of brick, accessible by a tunnel leading from the cellar of Jasperley House. Arch of dressed stone with keystone at entrance to passage in Jasperley House cellar, tunnel some 13.7m long, 1.8m high and 1.06m wide running SW to vaulted chamber some 2.43m high.
Reason for designation
Included as a vaulted cellar of possible medieval origin.
Nearby in the register
- Churchyard gates, piers and railingsReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Milanese House, including Crackwell House to rearCommercialunder 1 mi
- No 2 Lancaster BuildingsNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Jasperley HouseCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.