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
6106
Building Number
3
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
03/03/1961
Date of Amendment
28/03/2002
Name of Property
Wheelhouse
Address
3 Bridge Street
Location
Unitary Authority
Pembrokeshire
Community
Tenby
Town
Tenby
Locality
Easting
213557
Northing
200431
Street Side
S
Location
Situated on the S side of Bridge Street some 25m E of Quay Hill.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Earlier C19 three-storey terraced house, of which No 4 may have been a service range, but No 4 incorporates part of a medieval house. No 3 apparently rebuilt after 1834 view of Bridge St by Charles Norris.
Exterior
Terraced house, unpainted roughcast with slate close-eaved roof and short red brick left end stack. Plain three-storey double-fronted N facade with horned C20 plate glass sashes throughout, painted slate sills, and centre door. Two windows each floor, the upper ones half-length. Blank centre opening between upper windows. C20 half-glazed door to centre, boarded door to extreme right. In 1977 the main windows were sashes with glazing bars. Rear has narrow whitewashed external passage against bank behind with rear wing carried over on brick half-vault.
Interior
Not available for inspection but said to have narrow interior with centre stair rising from rear. Interior modernised. 1977 list mentions ground floor E room with small iron grate with round-arched opening, and 6-panel doors.
Reason for designation
Included as a late Georgian style house in one of the oldest streets of Tenby.
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