Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
6261
Building Number
Grade
II*
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
19/03/1951
Date of Amendment
28/03/2002
Name of Property
No 3 Rock Terrace including railings
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Pembrokeshire
Community
Tenby
Town
Tenby
Locality
Easting
213601
Northing
200345
Street Side
S
Location
Set back from the street line on the S side of St Julian's Street opposite Slate House with rear facade overlooking Iron Bar Sands.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
One of pair of formal semi-detached early C19 town houses set back from street behind lawned forecourts.
Exterior
Right hand house of pair of houses in painted stucco with slate close-eaved roof and large brick end wall chimneys each with 18 chimney pots. Facades each of 3 storeys, 2 bays, the stucco channelled as masonry. Roof skylights, large hornless sash windows, 16-pane on 2nd floor, 20-pane sash windows on 1st floor and 24-pane sashes to outer bays of ground floor. Small oculus to right of door of No 3. Round-headed doorways in inner bays treated as a single unit with delicate timber trellis double porch; doorways with fluted pilasters, radiating fanlights and doors with raised and fielded panels, and corresponding panels in the reveals.
Forecourts enclosed by dwarf stone walls and railings interrupted by 2 gates in centre and 1 at either end. Railings along street have spear-headed finials and standards with urn finials. Railings of different design bounding paths to houses, added in C20, re-using railings from elsewhere (on right side from Minwear House, Warren St, demolished for Post Office).
Rear slate-hung facades to sea with trellis porches, canted 2-storey outer bays, 6-24-6-pane glazing and hipped roofs. 16-pane sash to upper floor each side. Centre has doors in renewed trellis porches, paired round-headed first floor windows and large overhanging earlier C20 addition on 3rd floor with 4 windows and hipped slate roof. 2 dormers behind parapet.
Interior
Reason for designation
Graded II* as a particularly well-detailed pair of Georgian houses with unusual iron trellis porches.
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