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
12114
Building Number
4
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
01/07/1974
Date of Amendment
30/11/2005
Name of Property
4 High Street
Address
4 High Street
Location
Unitary Authority
Pembrokeshire
Community
Haverfordwest
Town
Haverfordwest
Locality
Easting
195231
Northing
215598
Street Side
N
Location
Situated in terraced row Nos 2-10 High Street, facing Boer War memorial.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Commercial premises with later C19 detail to probable C18 building of three storeys, considerably smaller in scale than the adjoining No 2. The basement, at street level to Dark Street includes a pointed medieval barrel-vaulted cellar. Part of Swales Music Centre with Nos 2 and 6, joined internally. Premises of the Pearl Assurance Co. 1926. A photograph of the 1860s shows a roughcast front, no shopfront and paired square brackets under the gutter. The windows were 6-pane to top floor, 8-pane to first floor.
Exterior
Terraced house, now shop, painted stucco with slate close-eaved roof and brick right end stack. Three storeys, 3 close-spaced bays. Timber eaves board. Plate glass sash windows to upper floor, relatively long and narrow, and C20 fixed plate glass windows to ground floor left and centre, shorter than those on first floor. Slate sills. C20 half-glazed door to right with overlight.
Rear N to Dark Street of four storeys, rendered, with big external chimneybreast to right, several sloping set-offs. Modern brick stack set back on main gable. Possibly medieval pointed door in grey limestone surround of squared stones. Plank door. Square modern window above, then canted oriel (at ground level within) with panelled piers between plate glass sashes, and horned four-pane sash each side of chimney to two upper floors.
Interior
Interior not inspected. Ground floor altered as shop, basement has pointed barrel vaulted medieval cellar.
Reason for designation
Included for its special historic interest as one of the earliest houses of the town, with medieval cellar.
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