Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Borough 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
- 51.67118, -4.69735
- Cadw reference
- 6248
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
On the NW corner of the junction of St Julian's Street and Sergeants Lane.
History
Earlier C19 house with long rear part to similar height, possibly once warehousing. Occupied by Boro Stores and Grocers 1871, Hermann Thomas & Sons plumbers in 1926 and 1977, and by TYF outdoor sports shop in 2001.
Exterior
Commercial premises and house, roughcast with hipped close-eaved slate roof. Street elevation of 3 storeys, 2 bays, the upper floors roughcast, and the ground floor stuccoed. Large sash windows, 9-pane to 2nd floor, 12-pane to first floor over late C19 shopfront with plain pilasters each side, fascia with console brackets and cornice. Recessed centre paired glazed doors with overlight, between 3-pane shop windows, the inner panes canted in.
Left side wall to forecourt of Lock House is windowless, partly slate-hung.
Right side long elevation to Sergeants Lane. From left: cellar opening, door and then very long square headed stair light, then 3-storey house section with 9-pane and blank second floor windows, 12-pane and blank first floor windows, 12-pane, front door up 4 steps and window over cellar door to ground floor. To extreme right is ground floor sash window with coloured glass margins. Hipped end wall has 9-pane upper window, cross window to first floor and ground floor lean-to.
Interior
Ground floor altered as shop, with store-room to first floor.
Reason for designation
Included as a prominent earlier C19 building framing the forecourt of Lock House.
Nearby in the register
- Slate HouseCommercialunder 1 mi
- Lock HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Lansdowne House and Griffith LodgeDomesticunder 1 mi
- No 1 Rock Terrace, including area railingsDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.