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
6174
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
19/03/1951
Date of Amendment
28/03/2002
Name of Property
Cellar under roadway, reached from Jasperley House.
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Pembrokeshire
Community
Tenby
Town
Tenby
Locality
Easting
213401
Northing
200482
Street Side
E
Location
Situated under the High Street on a line from Jasperley House to Barclays Bank.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Cellar thought to stand on the site of the house of Thomas White, a mayor of Tenby in the C15 who lies buried in the Church. Access from hatch in floor of Boots premises to tunnel running SW.
Exterior
Interior
Cellar with walls of rubble and arched roof, of dressed stone or possibly of brick, accessible by a tunnel leading from the cellar of Jasperley House. Arch of dressed stone with keystone at entrance to passage in Jasperley House cellar, tunnel some 13.7m long, 1.8m high and 1.06m wide running SW to vaulted chamber some 2.43m high.
Reason for designation
Included as a vaulted cellar of possible medieval origin.
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