Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
No. 2 Kingsbridge Cottages
Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 14 July 1981
- Town
- Pembroke
- Community
- Pembroke
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.67732, -4.90034
- Cadw reference
- 6358
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
In the row of 17 cottages at Kingsbridge, on the NW side of the A4075 and some 675m NE of the roundabout at its junction with Main Street.
History
One of a row of mid C19 single-storey cottages, many of which have lost original windows since listing in 1981. The row was one of the best examples of the single-storey cottage rows built from the 1860s. Nos. 1 and 2 are a pair at the E end, Nos. 3-10 are one terrace, joined at canted angle by Nos. 11-17.
Exterior
Single-storey cottage in semi-detached pair. Painted roughcast with slate gabled roof. Flanking stacks, the left one pebbledashed and the right one rendered. Two large sash windows flanking arched centre door way. Fancy stuccoed surrounds to 12-pane sash windows and door of four moulded panels with plain fanlight.
Front garden wall of stone with pebbledash cladding and with rough blocks of stone for coping. Simple gate piers.
Since 1981 windows replaced in uPVC.
Interior
Not inspected.
Reason for designation
Included notwithstanding window alterations as one of the best examples of the C19 single-storey houses in the vicinity of Pembroke and Pembroke Dock.
Nearby in the register
- No. 4 Kingsbridge CottagesDomesticunder 1 mi
- No. 7 Kingsbridge CottagesDomesticunder 1 mi
- No. 10 Kingsbridge CottagesDomesticunder 1 mi
- No. 17 Kingsbridge CottagesDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.