The Lifeboat Station, Tenby, Pembrokeshire

Coordinates

Latitude: 51.6732 / 51°40'23"N

Longitude: -4.695 / 4°41'42"W

OS Eastings: 213748

OS Northings: 200597

OS Grid: SN137005

Mapcode National: GBR GF.7RJP

Mapcode Global: VH2PS.K6SN

Plus Code: 9C3QM8F3+7X

Entry Name: The Lifeboat Station

Listing Date: 1 December 1992

Last Amended: 28 March 2002

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 6560

Building Class: Maritime

ID on this website: 300006560

Location: On the N side of the headland below Castle Hill, reached from path along cliff edge.

County: Pembrokeshire

Town: Tenby

Community: Tenby (Dinbych-y-pysgod)

Community: Tenby

Built-Up Area: Tenby

Traditional County: Pembrokeshire

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History

Lifeboat house of 1905 by W T Douglas, engineer and architect to the RNLI, at a cost of £3,871. An almost identical example is at Porthstinan, St Davids, of 1911.

Exterior

Lifeboat-house and slipway. Painted corrugated-iron cladding to timber-frame lifeboat house on high concrete and timber slipway with timber-decked access from Castle Hill. Lifeboat house has curved roof and is taller at seaward end as it encloses the top of the slipway. The windows are stepped down accordingly: casement-pair windows with single-pane top-light and central boarded door beside flagstaff to landward end.
The slipway has reinforced concrete piers and lattice-girders, replaced since 1904. Cantilevered walkways to either side.

Interior

Not inspected.

Reasons for Listing

Included as an example of changing technology in lifeboats, the early C20 move to high slipways for rapid launching into deep water.

External Links

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The Lifeboat Station

A Grade II Listed Building in Tenby, Pembrokeshire