Full Report for Listed Buildings


Summary Description of a Listed Buildings


Reference Number
14361
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
18/02/1994  
Date of Amendment
18/02/1994  
Name of Property
Surrounding Wall  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Pembrokeshire  
Community
Pembroke Dock  
Town
 
Locality
 
Easting
197178  
Northing
204277  
Street Side
 
Location
Situed on cliff footpath some 150m NNE of South Pembrokeshire District Council offices.  

Description


Broad Class
Defence  
Period
 

History
1860 powder magazine built for Hut Encampment on Llanion Hill above.  

Exterior
Brown tooled squared stone with grey limestone flush dressings. Twin-gabled N front with coped gables, grey stone quoins, and moulded corbels to high shoulders each side. One window above lean-to porches. Loops in side walls. Slate roofs. Interior contains two brick-vaulted chambers with some remaining dividing walls. High and impressive arched vaults. Surrounding wall in grey limestone rubble, coped with cambered arched N doorway, rebated for missing doors. Datestone above. Set into side walls, within enclosure, at NE and NW corners are two brick vaulted chambers with stone-framed doors and windows. Quadripartite vaults. The building is fireproof, the complex built into the excavated hillside, and the path in front was embanked, all to guard against blast. This was the main magazine for the barracks. Poor condition.  

Interior
 

Reason for designation
Listed as a good example of Victorian military engineering in conjunction with a major British naval base.  

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