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
12066
Building Number
43
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
01/07/1974
Date of Amendment
30/11/2005
Name of Property
No. 43 Dew Street (formerly the Dew Street Infants School)
Address
43 Dew Street
Location
Unitary Authority
Pembrokeshire
Community
Haverfordwest
Town
Haverfordwest
Locality
Easting
195062
Northing
215337
Street Side
NW
Location
Situated in terraced row about mid-way along street.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Former Dew Street Infants School of 1887, used as Scout Hall in C20 and latterly as builder's premises.
Exterior
Former Infants School, rubble stone with Bath stone dressings, Gothic style. Slate roofs with bargeboarded narrow 2-storey front gable to street with terracotta fleur-de-lys finial. First floor pointed window with Y- tracery, shield date-plaque below 'Infants School 1887', over segmental-pointed doorway below with chamfered surround and boarded door. Thin segmental-pointed lancet to each side, and rubble stone plinth. A roof at right angles links to end walls of Nos 41 and 45, behind is slightly taller gable of main schoolroom with Bath stone bellcote. Single pointed bell opening and cross-gabled top.
Interior
Interior has entrance porch open to roof and then long single-storey former schoolroom running back with high roof of five collar trusses with king struts and raking braces. Three large casement pair windows on NE wall, the glazing with Tudor heads. Two similar windows one over the other in end wall.
Reason for designation
Included for its special interest as a Victorian Gothic former schoolroom, retaining original detail.
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