Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Slipway & Quay Wall at Hobb's Point
Pembroke Dock, Pembrokeshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Pembroke Dock, Pembrokeshire, designated on 14 July 1981.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Maritime
- Date of designation
- 14 July 1981
- Community
- Pembroke Dock
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.69970, -4.94168
- Cadw reference
- 6446
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 · 228 Haverfordwest (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Situated at N end of Pier Road and forming the most northerly part of Hobbs Point.
History
The Irish mails were carried from Milford before 1836, then from here, linked by royal mail coaches to the railway at Gloucester, later to Clynderwen and later again to Neyland. Used by the Admiralty from mid C19 with, in later C19, a large set of sheer legs for completing warships set on N side.
Exterior
1830-4 quay and slipway built for the Irish Packet service to Waterford. Designed by Captain Fanshawe R E and supervised by Captain E J Savage R E; contractor H Macintosh of London at a cost of ú20,250/19/0d. Foundations to some 34 feet below low water level. Limestone ashlar facing with Cornish granite copings. The slipway facing E is broad and in a single slope, to S is small dock with curved W end and SE corner extended in concrete. N Wall, to Haven, curves round at NW corner and returns back to Old Pier House. [Three bollards are listed separately.]
Nearby in the register
- Two Bollards on N Side of QuayGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Pembroke Haven Yacht Club at Hobbs PointRecreationalunder 1 mi
- One Former Cannon Barrel to SW SideGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Hobbs PointDefenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.