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
26421
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
28/03/2002
Date of Amendment
28/03/2002
Name of Property
Myrtle House
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Pembrokeshire
Community
Tenby
Town
Tenby
Locality
Easting
213468
Northing
200313
Street Side
W
Location
On the W side of St Mary's Street some 50m N of the junction with the Paragon.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
House now hotel, c1870-80, built to similar style as the smaller Battersea House adjoining, and with similarities to houses of the period in Victoria Street. Probably built by Wm Davies of Tenby, builder (cf detail in Victoria Street). Occupied by Miss Lea 1926.
Exterior
House, painted stucco and slate roof with end brick stack. Three-storeys, double-fronted, similar to Myrtle House adjoining. Four-pane sashes to top floor under eaves, first floor pair of large canted oriel window with 2-4-2-pane glazing, cornices, hipped slate roofs and chamfered bases. Ground floor centre 6-panel door with overlight in stucco pilastered doorcase with entablature and cornice. Four-pane large sash each side. Iron flower guards made by Priory Foundry, Caramrthen. Raised plinth.
Interior
Inner lobby with acanthus rose, inner door with overlight. Hall arch on ornate plaster corbels. Stair has large bulbous turned newel, ramped rail, stick balusters, and moulded tread ends.
Reason for designation
Included with Battersea House as good later C19 pair of houses with surviving detail
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