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
12609
Building Number
1  
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
26/08/1981  
Date of Amendment
28/07/1992  
Name of Property
1 High Street  
Address
1 High Street  

Location


Unitary Authority
Pembrokeshire  
Community
St. David's and the Cathedral Close  
Town
 
Locality
 
Easting
175389  
Northing
225315  
Street Side
 
Location
Situated at extreme W end of High Street, at entry to Cross Square.  

Description


Broad Class
Commercial  
Period
 

History
This house was latterly the Beehive Cafe and before that the Post Office, the premises of Barclays Bank (before adjoining building was built ca1930) and ca1900 called Maldwyn House; occupied 1906 by F J Sime, relieving officer and registrar.  

Exterior
Mid to later C19 house and shop in rubble stone with slate roof (grouted slate 1981) and big stone end stacks. Two-storey three-window front with 12-pane sashes above, purple stone voussoirs (replaced to centre window) and slate sills. Ground floor has round-arched door to right of centre with painted rendered head and reveals, modern half-glazed door and original traceried fanlight. To left, shopfront under exceptionally broad purple stone head, slightly cambered. Shopfront is mid C20 with recessed centre door between windows with stained glass top lights. Old photographs show large 9-paned window each side of shop door. To right is early C20 canted bay window on stone base. Sash windows and moulded cornice. Rear pointed stair-light with intersecting glazing bars. Two storey NW rear wing and various modern additions including, prominently, a flat-roofed imitation stone addition to left of main front. To rear NW is low rubble outbuilding with slate roof, said to have been a smithy.  

Interior
 

Reason for designation
 

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