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
6233
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
26/04/1977
Date of Amendment
28/03/2002
Name of Property
The Five Arches Bookshop
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Pembrokeshire
Community
Tenby
Town
Tenby
Locality
Easting
213400
Northing
200391
Street Side
S
Location
Situated on the S side of St George's Street near the junction with Lower Frog Street.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
Mid C19 terraced house and shop, the third in a roughly similar row of four three-storey 2-bay houses, including the premises occupied in 2001 by Fecci's Ice Cream Parlour, The Picnic Basket and Tenby Rock and Fudge. This one differs in being of only one bay, set to right. In 1977 occupied by E Handicott & Sons.
Exterior
House and shop, painted stucco street elevation of 3 storeys, 1 bay, set to right. Close eaves to slate roof, 12-pane hornless sash window to right on both 2nd and 1st floors. Shop front on ground floor with pilaster and curved-topped bracket to left of timber fascia board. Single pane plate glass window canting in each side of central doorway with half-glazed panelled double doors and overlight.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as a terraced house and shop with late Georgian style small-paned sashes.
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