Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
6174
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
19/03/1951
Date of Amendment
28/03/2002
Name of Property
Cellar under roadway, reached from Jasperley House.
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Pembrokeshire
Community
Tenby
Town
Tenby
Locality
Easting
213401
Northing
200482
Street Side
E
Location
Situated under the High Street on a line from Jasperley House to Barclays Bank.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Cellar thought to stand on the site of the house of Thomas White, a mayor of Tenby in the C15 who lies buried in the Church. Access from hatch in floor of Boots premises to tunnel running SW.
Exterior
Interior
Cellar with walls of rubble and arched roof, of dressed stone or possibly of brick, accessible by a tunnel leading from the cellar of Jasperley House. Arch of dressed stone with keystone at entrance to passage in Jasperley House cellar, tunnel some 13.7m long, 1.8m high and 1.06m wide running SW to vaulted chamber some 2.43m high.
Reason for designation
Included as a vaulted cellar of possible medieval origin.
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