Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
126 Main Street
Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, designated on 29 July 2005.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 29 July 2005
- Locality
- Pembroke
- Town
- Pembroke
- Community
- Pembroke
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.67434, -4.90931
- Cadw reference
- 84943
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 · 245 Pembroke (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
On the N side of Main Street some 150m E of its E junction with East Back.
History
C19 front building heavily altered in C20, the Top of the Town fish-and-chip shop in 2004. Within are remains of a medieval house with vaulted room, behind the front building, one of the larger medieval ground floors left in the town. The significant distance back from the street front may indicate the wider medieval street, as shown on Speed's 1610 map.
An old photograph in the premises shows the facade when premises of WE Wignall & Co, tobacconists. It was then roughcast with three bays, two to left, one to right and 4-pane sashes to first floor and ground floor right. Door left of centre and shop window to left. Previously it had been the Red Lion inn, a Cawdor estate property, recorded as an inn in 1795 and closed in 1891.
Exterior
House now shop, painted roughcast with slate roof. Two storeys, three bays, much altered in C20. First floor plate glass sashes, one to centre and a pair each side. Ground floor left and centre right have two matching C20 shopfronts with door to left of shop-window. C20 house door to right. Right end has projecting added lean-to.
Interior
Two shops within. At the back of the W room are two segmental pointed stone medieval arches, one blocked, the other into a passage to a small stone vaulted room parallel to street. At back of E room are two medieval corbels in wall to right and a segmental pointed doorway to left.
Reason for designation
Included principally for the special interest of the medieval architectural remains within the later fabric.
Nearby in the register
- Barnard House with forecourt railings and gateDomesticunder 1 mi
- Eaton House and forecourt railingsDomesticunder 1 mi
- Camrose House and forecourt railingsDomesticunder 1 mi
- 104 Main StreetNo class recordedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.