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.
Date of Designation
29/07/2005
Date of Amendment
29/07/2005
Name of Property
104 Main Street
Unitary Authority
Pembrokeshire
History
Early C19 house with c1907 shopfront, the side-wall incorporating substantial side-wall of a medieval house, this probably occupying the plot to the W. Possibly the plot owned by Miss Catherine Humphreys marked to W of lot 25 on the 1857 Orielton estate sale map. Said to have been a cobblers shop in 1880s, Davies Cycle Shop by 1907. Old photographs show the house without the shopfront.
Exterior
End-terrace house and shop, painted stucco with slate roofs. Three-storeys, three-window range. Brick dentilled eaves. Upper floors have C20 windows imitating 4-pane sashes, ground floor has three-panel house door with overlight to extreme right and large later C19 projecting shop-front to left, the fascia continued over house door and supported on trellised panel at right of door. Shop-front has recessed half-glazed centre door and overlight, thin columns at angles of canted shop-windows with plate-glass panes, narrow side panes canted in to door.
Lower rear wing with on W wall the marks of a medieval building. Small opening with segmental pointed head and surround splayed outward to left, then two large pointed arches and against gable end of main house a former gable end with marks of chimney and the corbels of a first floor hooded fireplace. Two skylights and C20 dormer on W side.
Interior
Ground floor shop, upper floors not inspected.
Reason for designation
Included primarily as an earlier C19 building with good Edwardian (c1907) shop-front and substantial remains of a medieval building on W end wall.
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