Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Tower Cottage
Tenby, Pembrokeshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 26 April 1977
- Town
- Tenby
- Community
- Tenby
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.67065, -4.70021
- Cadw reference
- 6188
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
The entrance is on the SW side of Lower Frog Street leading to the cottage partially built into a tower on the old town walls.
History
Small 2-storey cottage presumably of C19 date built into a bastion of the medieval Town Wall.
Exterior
Cottage, white-painted roughcast, two storey with monopitch roof in curve of bastion. Small 4-pane sash to first floor right (a ledged door in 1977) and a 4-pane sash to ground floor left and a doorway to right of centre. A single storey range attached to right comes forward with monopitch roof against garden wall to N and 2 4-pane sashes in E end wall. A continuation of the main building to the left is concealed by No 2 Alpha Cottage.
Interior
The ground floor rooms said to have glazed arrow loops in town wall (1977 list).
Reason for designation
Included as an unusual cottage built into a bastion of the medieval wall.
Nearby in the register
- No 1 Alpha CottagesDomesticunder 1 mi
- SouthseaDomesticunder 1 mi
- No 1 Lydstep BuildingsDomesticunder 1 mi
- No 2 Lydstep BuildingsDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.