Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
The Caldey Abbey Shop
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
- 51.67154, -4.69803
- Cadw reference
- 6228
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 on the E side of Quay Hill between Tudor Square and Bridge Street.
History
Infill building of uncertain age much reconstructed in C20. Said to have been a house until 1955, then altered to shop.
Exterior
Commercial premises, former house, plain pebbledashed street elevation of 2 storeys with slate roof behind parapet. First floor has 2 4-pane sash windows, ground floor is painted stucco with 2-pane shop window on either side of a centre doorway, the left one set lower than the other. Windows have moulded cornices. Doors have been replaced since 1977. Late C20 lean-to to rear.
Interior
Interior altered, ground floor shop, first floor has 3-sided ceiling.
Reason for designation
Included for group value in medieval street.
Nearby in the register
- The Lifeboat TavernCommercialunder 1 mi
- Premises occupied by Cofion bookshopDomesticunder 1 mi
- Dolphin CottageDomesticunder 1 mi
- Plantagenet HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.