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
6262
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
19/03/1951
Date of Amendment
28/03/2002
Name of Property
No 1 Rock Houses, including area railings
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Pembrokeshire
Community
Tenby
Town
Tenby
Locality
Easting
213617
Northing
200354
Street Side
S
Location
First of a terrace of four set behind railings on the street line on the SE side of the bend in St Julian's Street opposite Lansdowne Cottages.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Terraced house part of an earlier C19 pair with No 2 Rock Houses, similar in detail to Lexden Terrace of 1843. No 1 Rock House occupied 1926 by Doctors Charles and Henry Mathias, surgeons.
Exterior
End-terrace house, a pair with No 2 to a unified design. Painted stuccoed front of 3 storeys and basement, 2 bays divided by 3 Ionic pilasters rising from band over ground floor and carrying heavily moulded entablature with pulvinated frieze, cornice and parapet. One-window range and inner doorway to each house, 12-pane hornless sashes, ground floor windows not aligned to the windows of the upper floors. Broad flight of 3 stone steps up to paired central Ionic doorcases with recessed 6-panel doors with overlights. Cast-iron boot scrapers set into stone.
Slate steps to basements: No 1 has C20 horned 9-paned sash and C20 door beneath bridge to front door.
Right end wall of No 1 is slate-hung and has 4-paned horned sashes aligned on 1st and 2nd floor left, also a very tall stair window of 32 panes, 2 panes wide. This is partly obscured by a 1st floor link to No 4 Rock Terrace, also slate-hung.
Area railings similar to those before Lexden Terrace to either side of steps with gates to outer ends to basement steps.
Rear seaward side is slate-hung with parapet, 2 2-storey canted bay windows with 2-4-2-pane sashes, and 2 2nd floor pairs of 4-pane sashes. 2 dormers behind parapet.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as one of an architecturally sophisticated pair of houses in late Georgian style.
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