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
6560
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
01/12/1992
Date of Amendment
28/03/2002
Name of Property
The Lifeboat Station
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Pembrokeshire
Community
Tenby
Town
Tenby
Locality
Easting
213748
Northing
200597
Street Side
Location
On the N side of the headland below Castle Hill, reached from path along cliff edge.
Description
Broad Class
Maritime
Period
History
Lifeboat house of 1905 by W T Douglas, engineer and architect to the RNLI, at a cost of £3,871. An almost identical example is at Porthstinan, St Davids, of 1911.
Exterior
Lifeboat-house and slipway. Painted corrugated-iron cladding to timber-frame lifeboat house on high concrete and timber slipway with timber-decked access from Castle Hill. Lifeboat house has curved roof and is taller at seaward end as it encloses the top of the slipway. The windows are stepped down accordingly: casement-pair windows with single-pane top-light and central boarded door beside flagstaff to landward end.
The slipway has reinforced concrete piers and lattice-girders, replaced since 1904. Cantilevered walkways to either side.
Interior
Not inspected.
Reason for designation
Included as an example of changing technology in lifeboats, the early C20 move to high slipways for rapid launching into deep water.
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