Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Post Office
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
- Communications
- Date of designation
- 29 July 2005
- Locality
- Pembroke
- Town
- Pembroke
- Community
- Pembroke
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.67539, -4.91537
- Cadw reference
- 84986
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 S side of Main Street some 170m E of the Town Hall.
History
Pembroke Post Office, built 1927-8, presumably to designs from the Office of Works, London. The post office had been proposed from 1921 and was built on the site of two terraced houses, Nos. 47 and 49.
Exterior
Post Office, painted roughcast with roof of graded silver-grey slates, vernacular neo-Georgian style. Single storey, the roof on deep flat eaves, and the right end gable slate-hung in similar slates, swept-out at base over flat eaves carried around from front wall. Symmetrical front of two wide neo-Georgian bowed shop-windows of 36 panes, with painted roughcast below. The right window has glazing bars framing a round opening for the office clock. Centre 8-panel door in moulded architrave. Raised plinth. Attached to right is roughcast gatepier with painted ball finial.
Interior
Interior altered.
Reason for designation
Included for its special architectural interest of definite quality and character as a well-designed inter-war post office in an unusual vernacular Georgian style.
Nearby in the register
- Shaftesbury House, forecourt wall and rails and house to leftCommercialunder 1 mi
- 57 Main StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- No 62 and forecourt railingsCommercialunder 1 mi
- Picton HouseCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.