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
6112
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
26/04/1977
Date of Amendment
28/03/2002
Name of Property
The Old Coastguard House
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Pembrokeshire
Community
Tenby
Town
Tenby
Locality
Easting
213799
Northing
200517
Street Side
Location
Situated on the E side of Castle Hill some 35m E of the Prince Consort Memorial.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Earlier C19 house, formerly the coastguard station. In 1818 tenders were advertised for a watch-tower and boat-house for HM Customs on Castle Hill. The coastguard station is listed as being on Castle Hill in C19 directories from at least 1844 and is shown on the present site on the 1849 map. Coxswain Parrott of the Tenby lifeboat is said to have lived here in the 1860s. Renewed in late C20 with new horned sash windows.
Exterior
House, white-painted stucco with hipped slate close-eaved roof. E seaward elevation has a 2-storey canted bay window of 8-8-8 panes, with a doorway to right of it. S side has entry at first floor due to sloping site, centre lean-to stuccoed porch approached by ramp from left. Porch has small 4-pane window in E return and boarded door below. 16-pane sash each side of porch, and 8-pane sash to ground floor right. N side has 2 16-pane sash windows to first floor right over paired 8-8-pane sash and small 4-pane window, the paired sash not aligned. Rear W end has one ground floor window.
Interior
Not inspected.
Reason for designation
Included as an earlier C19 small house in late Georgian style, very prominently sited on Castle Hill and for historical interest as former Coastguard House.
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