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
6299
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
26/04/1977
Date of Amendment
28/03/2002
Name of Property
Cobra House
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Pembrokeshire
Community
Tenby
Town
Tenby
Locality
Easting
213334
Northing
200469
Street Side
W
Location
On the W side of Upper Frog Street opposite Bank Lane.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
Mid C19 house with later C19 shopfront, a butchers' shop occupied by J Mabe in 1926 and 1977, and by Blooms of Tenby, florist, in 2001. The house door to left now gives access to a through passage past 2 shops in rear wing to door to South Parade through the town wall. Formerly known as No 3 Theatre Terrace, there having been a theatre in Upper Frog St, 1810-18. Slightly different shop window in early C20 photograph.
Exterior
House and shop, painted stucco front with roof behind raised parapet. Three storeys and attic, 1 bay. C20 dormer behind parapet. Sixteen pane sash window on 2nd floor, large late C19 canted oriel window on 1st floor with 2-4-2-pane sashes and moulded cornice. Ground floor has C20 door to through passage to left and shop front to right with fascia and cornice, the cornice carried around base of oriel. Three console brackets in fascia, two over left door, one to far right. Shop-front has recessed door to left of 2-pane shop window with third pane canted in to door. Rendered 2-storey rear wing with C20 shop inserted.
Interior
Through passage leads through to town walls with inserted shops called Nelson Walk behind. Off passage is door to stair to Cobra Flats, stick balusters, thin bulbous newel, ramped rail and closed string.
Reason for designation
Included as stuccoed house in late Georgian style with good late C19 to early C20 shop-front.
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