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
84943
Building Number
126
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
29/07/2005
Date of Amendment
29/07/2005
Name of Property
126 Main Street
Address
126 Main Street
Location
Unitary Authority
Pembrokeshire
Community
Pembroke
Town
Pembroke
Locality
Pembroke
Easting
198939
Northing
201294
Street Side
Location
On the N side of Main Street some 150m E of its E junction with East Back.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
C19 front building heavily altered in C20, the Top of the Town fish-and-chip shop in 2004. Within are remains of a medieval house with vaulted room, behind the front building, one of the larger medieval ground floors left in the town. The significant distance back from the street front may indicate the wider medieval street, as shown on Speed's 1610 map.
An old photograph in the premises shows the facade when premises of WE Wignall & Co, tobacconists. It was then roughcast with three bays, two to left, one to right and 4-pane sashes to first floor and ground floor right. Door left of centre and shop window to left. Previously it had been the Red Lion inn, a Cawdor estate property, recorded as an inn in 1795 and closed in 1891.
Exterior
House now shop, painted roughcast with slate roof. Two storeys, three bays, much altered in C20. First floor plate glass sashes, one to centre and a pair each side. Ground floor left and centre right have two matching C20 shopfronts with door to left of shop-window. C20 house door to right. Right end has projecting added lean-to.
Interior
Two shops within. At the back of the W room are two segmental pointed stone medieval arches, one blocked, the other into a passage to a small stone vaulted room parallel to street. At back of E room are two medieval corbels in wall to right and a segmental pointed doorway to left.
Reason for designation
Included principally for the special interest of the medieval architectural remains within the later fabric.
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