No 2 St Catherine's and area railings, Tenby, Pembrokeshire

Coordinates

Latitude: 51.6723 / 51°40'20"N

Longitude: -4.696 / 4°41'45"W

OS Eastings: 213678

OS Northings: 200503

OS Grid: SN136005

Mapcode National: GBR GF.7R99

Mapcode Global: VH2PS.K78B

Plus Code: 9C3QM8C3+WJ

Entry Name: No 2 St Catherine's and area railings

Listing Date: 3 March 1961

Last Amended: 28 March 2002

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 26303

Building Class: Domestic

ID on this website: 300026303

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.

County: Pembrokeshire

Town: Tenby

Community: Tenby (Dinbych-y-pysgod)

Community: Tenby

Built-Up Area: Tenby

Traditional County: Pembrokeshire

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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.

Reasons for Listing

Included as a very prominent and substantial mid Victorian pair of stuccoed houses of townscape importance.

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No 2 St Catherine's and area railings

A Grade II Listed Building in Tenby, Pembrokeshire