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
6438
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
18/01/1974
Date of Amendment
18/02/1994
Name of Property
Former Oakum Store
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Pembrokeshire
Community
Pembroke Dock
Town
Locality
The Dockyard
Easting
195870
Northing
203815
Street Side
Location
Situated some 50m SE of Graving Dock, within Ministry of Defence enclosure.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
Built to store oakum, rope strands used in caulking timber ships. The contractor was R. Tregenna of Pembroke Dock. Marked as Oakum Store on 1858 Dockyard map.
Exterior
1856 oakum store, now Royal Navy offices. Grey squared limestone with slate roof behind parapets. Two-storey, T-plan above rectangular ground floor, the W range pedimented to N and S, the E spine range pedimented to E, with 1856 datestones. E range has slate-roofed lean-tos each side flush with end walls of W range, and with stone coping to E.
Ashlar plinth and band, carried around as eaves band on lean-tos, and plain two-step cornice carried right around. Arched ground floor openings linked by impost band. Upper windows are casements with top lights and ashlar voussoirs. S front has pedimented 3-window section to left, with blocked broad centre arched door. Slight recess to right and ground floor arched doorway, C20 door, first floor possibly later addition, with one matching window and parapet. Two bay lean-to to right, with broad arched doorway, now window with radiating bar fanlight and window to right. Two windows over lean-to are shorter than those elsewhere. N front is similar but lean-to extends to pedimented block and has WWDW arrangement while pedimented block has DWW, doors to same width as windows. Three windows over lean-to, similar to those on S.
E end has 3-bay centre with broader first floor centre window, arched windows below and similar to lean-to E ends, that to left a blank doorway.
W Wall is 5-bay with blank centre door, no centre window but third window is a pair, breaking symmetry.
Window glazing is probably not original.
Interior
Reason for designation
Group value with other listed items in Pembroke Dockyard.
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