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
6294
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
26/04/1977
Date of Amendment
28/03/2002
Name of Property
Nos 1 & 2 Gower Houses
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Pembrokeshire
Community
Tenby
Town
Tenby
Locality
Easting
213479
Northing
200450
Street Side
N
Location
Situated on the N side of Tudor Square between the former Liberal Club and Clifton House.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
Large mid C19 4-storey building with flats over two shops. Shops occupied by Rembrandt and Kazbah in 2001. Old photographs show that there were 2 oriels to first floor and the 2 shopfronts each had recessed door on inner side, and overall fascia with console brackets, one each end, pair in centre. The one on the right was a grocery c1900.
Exterior
Commercial building, painted stucco with hipped slate roof behind parapet and brick end stacks. Four storeys, 3 bays, moulded cornice with modillions, quoins to upper floors. Square-headed sash windows in moulded stucco cambered-headed surrounds with keystones and small sill-brackets. Six-pane sash windows to upper 2 storeys (square to top floor), and 4-pane to first floor. C20 shop front to each side of ground floor, moulded cornice over.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as a substantial C19 frontage on Tudor Square.
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