Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
The Bush Inn
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
- 51.67109, -4.70051
- Cadw reference
- 6236
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 S side of St George's Street next to the town wall.
History
Narrow inn of c1860 abutting medieval walls. Not named in 1844 list of inns in Tenby, and not shown in engraving of 1856, but shown in a guidebook of 1863. The building is one bay of a 2-storey 4-bay range including the premises occupied by Five Arches Gifts to left. Shown as Bush Inn in late C19 photographs.
Exterior
Inn, very narrow painted stucco street elevation of 2 storeys, 1 bay, with close-eaved slate gabled roof. 12-pane hornless sash window on 1st floor. Entablature with cornice over ground floor door and narrow shop window, with one pilaster to left. Recessed C20 door with overlight, 6-pane shop-window with 4 panes to front and 2 that slope in to door. Stucco plinth below. The W wall is the medieval town wall, listed separately, and a small sash window is pierced through.
Reason for designation
Included as a small C19 inn with original street frontage, built up against medieval town wall.
Nearby in the register
- Premises occupied by Five Arches GiftsDomesticunder 1 mi
- Arch HouseNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Tenby Town WallsDefenceunder 1 mi
- Premises occupied by Ye Olde Gifte ShoppeCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.