Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Former Town Council offices
Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Civil
- Date of designation
- 30 November 2005
- Town
- Haverfordwest
- Community
- Haverfordwest
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.80144, -4.97144
- Cadw reference
- 87066
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 1608 "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Situated between the former Temperance Hall and No 2 High Street.
History
Former town council offices, built 1871 to design of K.W. Ladd of Pembroke Dock. The town council offices had been over the N porch of St Mary's church, demolished in 1861. In 1868 a Literary and Scientific Institute was proposed on the site of the Coach and Horses Inn by the trustees of the Perrott Charity. The town council took over the scheme in 1870 and proposed a Mechanics Institute, then a Reading Room and finally to use the building for their council chamber, an office for the mayor, a record office and a residence for the police superintendent. The single-storey front part of the building appears to have been first intended as a shop.
Exterior
Former town council offices, painted stucco with stone dressings to windows and slate eaves roof with brick end stacks. Three storeys, narrow two-bay front set back with large single-storey gabled range coming forward to align with the Temperance Hall to left. Windows are cambered headed four-pane sashes with sandstone rusticated surrounds and slate sills: two to top floor, two to first floor aligned further out than those above. Ground floor full-width projection has stuccoed front with coped gable and similar stone frame to cambered-headed doorway to extreme right and painted stuccoed surround to big triple window to left. Window has narrower side lights than centre, arched heads, the centre head segmental-arched, plate-glass long sash windows and thin chamfered mullions.
Tall rear to Dark Street of four storeys and two bays, rendered with exposed stone cambered-headed rusticated window surrounds and stone sills. Four-pane sashes in sandstone surrounds to main three floors, basement openings are not aligned, and have surrounds of tooled grey limestone. Tall doorway to left and 4-pane sash to right of centre. Grey stone plinth.
Interior
Interior not inspected.
Reason for designation
Included for special historic interest as the former town council offices, and for group value.
Nearby in the register
- 2 High StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- Former Temperance HallCommercialunder 1 mi
- 4 High StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 3 Dark StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.