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
14376
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
18/01/1974
Date of Amendment
18/02/1994
Name of Property
The Dockyard Walls
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Pembrokeshire
Community
Pembroke Dock
Town
Locality
The Dockyard
Easting
195695
Northing
203556
Street Side
Location
Surrounding the Dockyard on east, south and most of west side. The original main entrance is on S side and there are several subsequent entrances throughout its length.
Description
Broad Class
Maritime
Period
History
Earlier C19 dockyard wall enclosing some 90 acres of the former Royal Dockyard.
The Dockyard Wall was begun 1813, but it is uncertain how much is original. Walls to E and W were built c1813-4 but not finished to the S until some years later. These walls are said to have been pulled down and rebuilt 1830-2. Before 1844 the wall was indented to run to the N of the Paterchurch Tower, and 1843 plans for the Mast Pond show that the W wall ran along the present inner edge of the pond, in 1844 it was rebuilt to the present plan. The main outline is as at present on the 1858 map, but none of the minor entries are shown.
Exterior
Limestone rubble with ridged coping, some 3.5m high, and buttressed regularly along the inside with plain raised piers.
The E wall: Begins at NE corner by Front Street, opposite the NE Martello Tower, and runs S along Commercial Row, incorporating one opening with tall ashlar piers, probably made for the railway in 1864. After some 400m is set back to W to allow space for the Market, the indented section having a low south-facing doorway of 1862 giving access to the Dockyard Chapel; there are some musketry loops. A larger entry to the chapel with cambered head was made later in C19.
The S wall: Runs some 200m before curving in to meet the main dockyard gateway and lodges (listed separately). This section was repaired after 1945. The wall returns to streetline W of main entry; this 400m length has two entries towards W end, one modern, one possibly late C19 and another at SW corner, with tall gatepiers.
The W wall: Runs some 300m N before abutting the corner of former Pater Battery. One blocked arch through from Mast Pond. Formerly the wall continued behind battery to Carr Point.
Interior
Reason for designation
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