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Tower Cottage

A Grade II Listed Building in Tenby, Pembrokeshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.6707 / 51°40'14"N

Longitude: -4.7002 / 4°42'0"W

OS Eastings: 213379

OS Northings: 200328

OS Grid: SN133003

Mapcode National: GBR GF.7XW3

Mapcode Global: VH2PS.H81M

Plus Code: 9C3QM7CX+7W

Entry Name: Tower Cottage

Listing Date: 26 April 1977

Last Amended: 28 March 2002

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 6188

Building Class: Domestic

ID on this website: 300006188

Location: The entrance is on the SW side of Lower Frog Street leading to the cottage partially built into a tower on the old town walls.

County: Pembrokeshire

Town: Tenby

Community: Tenby (Dinbych-y-pysgod)

Community: Tenby

Built-Up Area: Tenby

Traditional County: Pembrokeshire

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History

Small 2-storey cottage presumably of C19 date built into a bastion of the medieval Town Wall.

Exterior

Cottage, white-painted roughcast, two storey with monopitch roof in curve of bastion. Small 4-pane sash to first floor right (a ledged door in 1977) and a 4-pane sash to ground floor left and a doorway to right of centre. A single storey range attached to right comes forward with monopitch roof against garden wall to N and 2 4-pane sashes in E end wall. A continuation of the main building to the left is concealed by No 2 Alpha Cottage.

Interior

The ground floor rooms said to have glazed arrow loops in town wall (1977 list).

Reasons for Listing

Included as an unusual cottage built into a bastion of the medieval wall.

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  • II No 2 Lydstep Buildings
    On the SW side of Lower Frog Street approximately 70m from the junction with St George's Street.
  • II Frogmore House
    On the SW side of Lower Frog Street approximately 40m from the junction with St George's Street.
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