Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
No 16 East Back and adjoining shop
Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales
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
- 51.67491, -4.91118
- Cadw reference
- 84944
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
On the N side of East Back very near its E junction with Main Street.
History
Earlier C19 house and shop. Marked on c. 1865 town map.
Exterior
House, roughcast with slate close-eaved roof and rendered small end stacks. Two storeys, three bays with 3 small 4-pane horned sashes under eaves, ground floor pair of plate glass sashes to left and horned 8-pane sash to right of centre 4-panel door. Stone sills. Stucco shouldered surrounds. Roughcast E end wall, outshut rear with cemented slate roof and gable on roof slope to right.
Shop to left to same roof height, of two bays whitewashed roughcast with 12-pane horned long sash to first floor left of centre and square opening to extreme right with 5 vertical panes. Ground floor left boarded door and right small recessed shop front with half-glazed door and fixed 4-pane shop window. Large rubble stone lean-to on left end with boarded garage doors.
Stub wall coming forward from left end of shop ends in grey limestone ground level arched niche with stringcourse over and half-round capstone.
Interior
Interior not inspected.
Reason for designation
Included for its special interest as a smaller earlier C19 house with lofted shop, a vernacular survival of definite character.
Nearby in the register
- Gatepiers and gates to St Michael's ChurchyardNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Church of Saint MichaelReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Forecourt railings, gates & gate piers to Wesley ChapelReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Gates and railings at Mount Pleasant Baptist ChapelReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.