Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
The Buccaneer 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
- 51.67133, -4.69786
- Cadw reference
- 6252
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 N side and W end of St Julian's Street opposite Cob Lane.
History
Early to mid C19 premises, much restored since 1977. The Tudor Temperance Hotel and Coffee Tavern in 1881, the Tudor Restaurant in 1961.
Exterior
Public house with accommodation over. Painted stucco with imitation slate C20 mansard roof behind parapet and 2 red brick right end stacks. Three storeys and attic, 3-window range of late C20 hornless 12-pane sash windows. Right hand first floor canted oriel window with 4-16-4-pane glazing and cornice, replaced in late C20. Ground floor altered in neo-Georgian style since 1977. Recess across left and centre, framing from left to right hand: C20 door with overlight, canted bay window with 4-20-4-pane glazing, and narrow 8-pane sash window. To right of centre, recessed main door with overlight between piers with moulded caps added since 1977. To right, another recess with 2x12-pane sash windows. Moulded string course added since 1977 over ground floor, broken forward over door. Three C20 dormers behind parapet.
Rear is rendered, mostly restored in late C20, hipped roof to left possibly originally a rear wing, infilled to right. C20 windows and metal outside stairs. Two red brick stacks on left side wall.
Reason for designation
Early-to-mid C19 building with a prominent stucco facade in one of the principal streets of the town centre.
Nearby in the register
- Vernon HouseCommercialunder 1 mi
- Cheltenham HousesCommercialunder 1 mi
- Jubilee HouseCommercialunder 1 mi
- The Lifeboat TavernCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.