26323

 

II  

Designated  

19/03/1951  

28/03/2002  

No 2 Rock Houses  

 

Pembrokeshire  

Tenby  

Tenby  

 

213623  

200356  

S  

Second of a terrace of four set behind railings on the street line on the SE side of the bend in St Julian's Street opposite Lansdowne Cottages.  

Domestic  

 

Terraced house part of an earlier C19 pair with No 1, similar in detail to Lexden Terrace of 1843. From 1847 the home of Dr F D Dyster (1810-93), prominent in C19 Tenby: mayor 1867-8, promoter of the Cottage Hospital 1871, the Savings Bank, the Museum 1878, and donor of the Wedgwood Memorial Fountain 1867 and another in Castle Square 1868. Noted as a naturalist, specialist on worms, and friend of T H Huxley, who visited Dyster regularly from 1854. They corresponded for nearly 40 years, and both lectured to working men in the town.  

Terraced house, a pair with No 1 Rock Houses. The pair are a single design with painted stuccoed street front of 3 storeys and basement, two bays divided by three Ionic pilasters rising from band over ground floor and carrying heavily moulded entablature with pulvinated frieze, cornice and parapet. One-window range and inner doorway to each house, 12-pane hornless sashes, ground floor windows not aligned to the windows of the upper floors. Broad flight of 3 stone steps up to paired central Ionic doorcases with recessed 6-panel doors with overlights. Cast-iron boot scrapers set into stone. Slate steps to basement: 4-paned horned sash and half glazed panelled door. Area railings similar to those before Lexden Terrace to left of steps with gate to left to basement steps. Slate-hung rear seaward side with parapet. Three storeys, 2 bays overall. Two dormers, 2 2-storey canted bays and 2 pairs of 4-pane sashes to upper floor.  

 

Included as one of an architecturally sophisticated pair of houses in late Georgian style.