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
12874
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
22/02/1993
Date of Amendment
22/02/1993
Name of Property
The Lord Nelson Hotel, including Low W.Range to St. Hamilton Terrace
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Pembrokeshire
Community
Milford Haven
Town
Locality
Easting
190250
Northing
205922
Street Side
Location
Situated prominently on front terrace, overlooking docks.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
l795-l800 hotel, built for Charles Greville as part of the first phase of the new town. Possibly designed by W Jernegan of Swansea, whom Greville consulted over general plans in l793. Called the New Inn until Lord Nelson's visit in August l802.
Exterior
Three-storey 5-window front with stucco detail probably later but pre-l880, slate hipped roof and two large red brick stacks. l-3-l front elevation, the outer bays slightly advanced and with quoins, upper lunette windows, first floor 12-pane sashes, and ground floor 4-12-4-pane tripartite sashes with big stucco cornices on console brackets. Centre has 6-pane upper sashes, l2-pane elsewhere and centre doors in later 3-bay porch with cornice and parapet. All windows have moulded stucco architraves and keystones. Large stucco plaque 'Lord Nelson Hotel' between upper floors in centre. Rear has arched stair light and first floor lunette plus wings each side, the W rear wing with additional parallel range, the E rear wing 3-window similar to main front. To W of main front is one-and-a-half storey stable range, a c1855 remodelling of one side of much longer original, of which the existing W gatepiers were the centrepiece. Two tripartite sashes, one gabled loft window over, door and three windows beyond.
Interior
Only the staircase is substantially as in original plan, though bottom newels are late Cl9. Stick balusters, plain column newels. The big dining room where the Lord Nelson banquet was held and numerous other civic functions was in the E wing and some original detail is said to survive under the modern low ceiling and wall cladding.
Reason for designation
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