12119

24  

II  

Designated  

01/07/1974  

30/11/2005  

NOS.24 & 26 HIGH STREET,,,,,DYFED,  

24 High Street  

Pembrokeshire  

Haverfordwest  

Haverfordwest  

 

195313  

215610  

N  

On the N side of the High Street some 45m E of its junction with Dark Street.  

Commercial  

 

Early C19 town house, possibly the front replacing an earlier building as the rear wing has a basement fireplace and parlour above with plasterwork and Palladian window of later C18 type. Marked on 1888 OS as Kingswood House. Premises of Tom Davies, clothier, from 1901, and in same family since, re-named County Clothes. Shopfront dates from 1906, by H.J.P. Thomas of Haverfordwest.  

Early C19 terraced house and shop, painted stucco with slate roof and deep flat eaves with paired brackets. Three storeys, three-window range of hornless 12-pane sashes to upper floors, the centre upper window blank with painted inscription 'Founded 1901'. Windows are in moulded architraves. Modernised 1901 full-width shop front with deep fascia, thin shafts to angles of plate glass windows, mosaic floor in recessed entry lettered 'Tom Davies', panelled soffit and half-glazed early C20 door. Long rubble stone gabled rear wing, basement and three storeys with late C18 Venetian window to ground floor with deep radiating brick voussoirs, C19 plate glass glazing. Attic 12-pane sash and first floor French window with brick cambered head. Whitewashed E side wall.  

Interior of ground floor front range altered as shop, but retaining early C19 staircase at right angles to front, rising in four flights with square balusters, scrolled tread ends, scrolled foot to continuous hardwood hand rail. Rear wing ground floor room has unusual plaster cornice, probably late C18 . Undercut leaf top moulding, and shallow modillions with unusual tassel-shaped drops beneath. Panelled reveal to N window, with bordered panels. Basement below has triple arched late C18 cooking-range recess, wide centre arch, narrow side arches, in brick with raised imposts and keystones. Raised floor level to N with blocked fireplace with brick head, over sub-basement area.  

Included for special architectural interest as good late Georgian style terraced front, with surviving staircase and C18 rear wing.