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
26361
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
19/03/1951  
Date of Amendment
28/03/2002  
Name of Property
Retaining wall to Pier Hill and former lifeboat house  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Pembrokeshire  
Community
Tenby  
Town
Tenby  
Locality
 
Easting
213623  
Northing
200533  
Street Side
E  
Location
Situated on the E side of the harbour.  

Description


Broad Class
Maritime  
Period
 

History
Retaining wall to the harbour access, C19 masonry, but presumably on the line of the original harbour approach. Shown on 1817 Charles Norris view. The old lifeboat house, built in 1852 by the Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners Royal Benevolent Soc. for the first Tenby lifeboat and in use until the construction of a new house on Castle Beach in 1862, is a lean-to structure between the wall and the Fishermen's Rooms.  

Exterior
Retaining wall, squared rock-faced grey limestone, with rubble stone sloping parapet wall along Pier Hill. Wall rises in heignt from N end curved junction with pier to high S end against Penniless Cove Hill. Lifeboat house is a lean-to structure against right hand end, between wall and the Fishermen's Rooms. Slate lean-to roof and grey stone tooled jambs to entry, shouldered in to carry lintel.  

Interior
 

Reason for designation
Included for group value with the other Harbour structures and the houses on Pier Hill.  

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