Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
The Timber Pond
Pembroke Dock, Pembrokeshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Maritime
- Date of designation
- 18 January 1974
- Locality
- The Dockyard
- Community
- Pembroke Dock
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.69466, -4.95821
- Cadw reference
- 6437
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 by W edge of dockyard, some 100m N of entrance from Fort Road.
History
1844 pond for preserving or 'pickling' elm timber for masts.
Exterior
Large, square-plan with granite coping, sloping E side with stone paving and rockfaced limestone side walls. Big elliptical arched drain mouth on N side, another outlet to sea on W.
Pond was built 1844 on ground originally outside W wall of dockyard, whose foundations were used for the E edge of the pond, the wall being rebuilt to W.
Nearby in the register
- The Dockyard WallsMaritimeunder 1 mi
- The South West Dockyard TowerDefenceunder 1 mi
- South West Dockyard TowerTowerunder 1 mi
- Paterchurch TowerDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.