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Paignton House

Tenby, Pembrokeshire, Wales

A Grade II listed building in Tenby, Pembrokeshire, designated on 26 April 1977.

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1913) covering the location of Paignton House, Tenby, Pembrokeshire, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1913), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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
51.67103, -4.69913
Cadw reference
6280

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1865 · England and Wales. England No. 6. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Sheet 10. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. . (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1898 · 245 Pembroke (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1901 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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Cadw's description

On the E side of St Mary's Street some 40m S of the junction with St George's Street.

One half of a later C19 pair of 3-storey houses, with Devonia.

Left house of a mirrored pair of stuccoed houses with slate close-eaved roof and left end stack. Three storeys, double-fronted with paired doors in centre and blank windows over. Raised quoins, plinth and shouldered surrounds to blank centre openings. Gabled dormer to each house, with 12-pane sash, 2-storey canted oriel window on 1st and 2nd floors with 2-4-2-pane glazing, opening side lights, chamfered and stopped surrounds, and moulded cornices. Ground floor 4-pane sash below. Paired centre doorways have plain stucco surround with cornice on 2 console brackets. C20 doors with plain overlights. Paignton House had an original door of 2 long panels in 1977.
Slate-hung end walls.

Included as a later C19 stuccoed pair of group value in St Mary's Street.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Designated Historic Asset GIS Data, The Welsh Historic Environment Service (Cadw), 2026-09-07, licensed under the Open Government Licence http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/ Cadw, the Welsh Historic Environment Service · Open Government Licence v3.0
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