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
6188
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
26/04/1977
Date of Amendment
28/03/2002
Name of Property
Tower Cottage
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Pembrokeshire
Community
Tenby
Town
Tenby
Locality
Easting
213379
Northing
200328
Street Side
W
Location
The entrance is on the SW side of Lower Frog Street leading to the cottage partially built into a tower on the old town walls.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Small 2-storey cottage presumably of C19 date built into a bastion of the medieval Town Wall.
Exterior
Cottage, white-painted roughcast, two storey with monopitch roof in curve of bastion. Small 4-pane sash to first floor right (a ledged door in 1977) and a 4-pane sash to ground floor left and a doorway to right of centre. A single storey range attached to right comes forward with monopitch roof against garden wall to N and 2 4-pane sashes in E end wall. A continuation of the main building to the left is concealed by No 2 Alpha Cottage.
Interior
The ground floor rooms said to have glazed arrow loops in town wall (1977 list).
Reason for designation
Included as an unusual cottage built into a bastion of the medieval wall.
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