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No 16 East Back and adjoining shop

Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales

A Grade II listed building in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, designated on 29 July 2005.

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1913) covering the location of No 16 East Back and adjoining shop, Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1913), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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)

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Cadw's description

On the N side of East Back very near its E junction with Main Street.

Earlier C19 house and shop. Marked on c. 1865 town map.

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 not inspected.

Included for its special interest as a smaller earlier C19 house with lofted shop, a vernacular survival of definite character.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Designated Historic Asset GIS Data, The Welsh Historic Environment Service (Cadw), 2026-09-07, licensed under the Open Government Licence http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/ Cadw, the Welsh Historic Environment Service · Open Government Licence v3.0
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