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
26337
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
28/03/2002
Date of Amendment
28/03/2002
Name of Property
Former Lifeboat House
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Pembrokeshire
Community
Tenby
Town
Tenby
Locality
Easting
213729
Northing
200473
Street Side
Location
Situated on N side of approach to Castle Beach.
Description
Broad Class
Maritime
Period
History
Former lifeboat house, 1895 by W T Douglas, architect and engineer to the RNLI, used only for a short time before being replaced by the lifeboat-house on the N side of Castle Hill in 1905. It cost £525, William Davies was the contractor. The stone slipway to the E has been removed. This lifeboat house replaced one immediately behind, built c1862, which replaced the one in the Harbour of c1852.
Exterior
Former lifeboat-house, rock-faced grey limestone with imitation slates to eaves roof. Single-storey building with broad opening each end, the seaward end blocked-in and rendered. Landward end has original big 4-leaf folding doors, the jambs corbelled in at tops to carry steel lintel. Side wall has 3 elliptical-arched recesses with stone voussoirs to arches, square piers between and tooled leading edges to stonework. Recesses have rock-faced chamfered plinths and each frame a small cambered-headed window with stone voussoirs. Three-light glazing with top-lights. Rock-faced stone sills. Three iron vents below sills, and three between arch-heads and eaves. Centre 1895 plaque. Seaward gable end has a similar window above blocked exit.
Interior
Three-bay pine roof with wishbone trusses
Reason for designation
Included as a C19 lifeboat house of historic interest.
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