Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
No. 17 Kingsbridge Cottages
Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, designated on 14 July 1981.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 14 July 1981
- Locality
- Pembroke
- Town
- Pembroke
- Community
- Pembroke
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.67675, -4.90213
- Cadw reference
- 6362
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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)
Cadw's description
Location
At the end of the row of Kingsbridge Cottages, on the NW side of the A4075 and some 550m NE of the roundabout at its junction with Main Street.
History
One of a row of mid C19 single-storey cottages. The row was one of the best examples of the single-storey cottage rows built from the 1860s in Pembroke Dock and Pembroke, particular to South Pembrokeshire. As built the terrace had seventeen cottages, Nos. 1 and 2 built as a pair at the E, Nos. 3-10 as one terrace, joined at canted angle to the other terrace Nos. 11-17.
Since 1981 the cream-washed rubble wall has been roughcast and painted. The windows remain, the only ones of wood in the terrace.
Exterior
Single-storey cottage at end of terraced row. Painted roughcast with slate roof and roughcast end stacks. Centre arched door bay and flanking 12-pane sashes. Plain fanlight over door with half-glazed C20 door.
Front garden with rubble walls and coping of stepped blocks of squared stone. Squat gatepiers have heavy square top blocks with shallow pyramidal tops.
Interior
Not inspected.
Reason for designation
Included 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. 10 Kingsbridge CottagesDomesticunder 1 mi
- No. 7 Kingsbridge CottagesDomesticunder 1 mi
- No. 4 Kingsbridge CottagesDomesticunder 1 mi
- No. 2 Kingsbridge CottagesDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.