Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Cobbled pavement in Brychan Yard
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
- 51.67235, -4.70128
- Cadw reference
- 6304
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 in the courtyard of Brychan Yard on the W side of Upper Frog Street.
History
C19 paving to former stables, originally built in 1807 apparently for Sir William Paxton, altered in C19 as stables for the White Lion and Cobourg hotels, owned after 1883 by the White Lion hotel.
Exterior
Cobbled setts of granite and grey limestone laid with square setts at NE end of yard with stone-framed drain, then rougher cobbles sloping from each side down to centre line of long thin setts sloping down to drain. More random larger setts at further end of yard.
Reason for designation
Included as an important part of the setting of the mews buildings.
Nearby in the register
- Pavement setts in front of Brychan YardDomesticunder 1 mi
- The Prince of Wales FlatsCommercialunder 1 mi
- Brychan YardDomesticunder 1 mi
- 15 Upper Frog StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.