Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
26303
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
03/03/1961
Date of Amendment
28/03/2002
Name of Property
No 2 St Catherine's and area railings
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Pembrokeshire
Community
Tenby
Town
Tenby
Locality
Easting
213678
Northing
200503
Street Side
Location
Situated to the SW of Castle Hill, on the N side of the approach to the castle remains and just to the E of Castle Square.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
One of a matching pair of houses said to date from 1861, possibly one of the houses for coastguards to which the Corporation objected when proposed in 1858.
Exterior
House, right half of a pair of houses. Painted stucco with slate roofs, end stacks and ridge stack. Four storeys, basement and attic, each house 2-window range with raised quoins, bands above ground, 2nd and 3rd floors, and parapet corbelled on paired plain blocks. Two gabled dormers each. Four-pane sashes to upper floor and inner bay of each house above doors in rusticated surrounds. Two-panel doors with overlights. Outer bays have 2-storey canted oriels with cornices and 2-4-2-pane sashes to first and second floors over ground floor broad tripartite sash. Similar tripartite sash to basement, altered on No 2.
Slate-hung end walls and rear, the slate-hanging renewed in late C20. Rear is slate-hung to upper 3 storeys, with 12-pane sashes to each floor in outer bays, the centre bays with projected section presumably added, to 2nd and 3rd floors. Dormers behind parapet.
Area railings have uprights with fleur-de-lys finials.
Interior
Not inspected.
Reason for designation
Included as a very prominent and substantial mid Victorian pair of stuccoed houses of townscape importance.
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