Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Paignton House
Tenby, Pembrokeshire, Wales
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
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 E side of St Mary's Street some 40m S of the junction with St George's Street.
History
One half of a later C19 pair of 3-storey houses, with Devonia.
Exterior
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.
Reason for designation
Included as a later C19 stuccoed pair of group value in St Mary's Street.
Nearby in the register
- ShipwrightsDomesticunder 1 mi
- DevoniaDomesticunder 1 mi
- Skrinkle CottageDomesticunder 1 mi
- Puffin CottageDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.