84942

108  

II  

Designated  

14/07/1981  

29/07/2005  

Eaton House and forecourt railings  

108 Main Street  

Pembrokeshire  

Pembroke  

 

Pembroke  

198869  

201329  

 

On the N side of Main Street some 75m E of its E junction with East Back.  

Domestic  

 

Earlier C19 house, one of a semi-detached pair with No 106 Camrose House, but with early C20 oriel window and alterations to interior. Probably one of the pair of substantial houses offered for sale in lot 25 of the 1857 Orielton sale. They were originally leased from 1820 to James Thomas, but in 1857 one was occupied by John Jones and the other by Miss Harriet Paynter.  

House, one of a pair of three-storey houses, painted roughcast with brick dentil eaves cornice and slate roof with red brick flanking stacks. One central window bay and outer doorway to each house. Originally with 12-pane sash windows to ground floor (aligned inward of centre) and centre first floor and pair of 9-pane sashes on second floor. Round arched outer doorway. No. 108 has added narrow sill bands, stucco shouldered surrounds to top floor and ground floor windows openings and rusticated arched surround to doorway with keystone (replacing presumably an open pedimented doorcase as on No 106). Plain fanlight and six-panel door, four sunk panels two flush panels. First floor window replaced by a long early C20 rectangular oriel window with long casement pair to front. Art Nouveau leaded stained glass in top lights, narrow side lights, modillions to cornice and metal hipped roof. Top 9-pane sashes replaced since 1981 in uPVC. Rear wing clad in late C20 dry-dash, part of single rear range with No 106. First floor oriel in N end wall. Earlier C19 wrought iron railings, similar to those of the 1820s in Picton Terrace, Carmarthen. Rendered dwarf walls with stone coping. Iron railings with square uprights with scrolls between spiked finials. Railings return to E side. Slate path to doorway. Gate of similar design to railings.  

Inner hall with fine early C20 Art Nouveau tiling on side walls and inner half-glazed door with Art Nouveau leaded glass, two similar leaded panels above in overlight. Hallway to right of front room with vine-scroll and wheat ceiling border, panelled shutters and six-panel door. Similar door to steep stone cellar stairs. Staircase at right angles to left of hall with straight balusters, open scroll strings, thin turned newels and ramped rails. First floor 6-panel door to big front room with leaf and berry cornice and hop-flower border. Earlier C20 fireplace in combination of neo-Adam and Art Nouveau detail: tall thin detached columns, high shelf and oval overmantel mirror under curved top. Attic has one 4-panel door. Rear wing has two four panel doors to top floor. Ground floor kitchen has fireplace on W wall with brick head.  

Included as a good late Georgian town house with surviving original detail and some good earlier C20 leaded stained glass and hall tiling.