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Latitude: 51.6726 / 51°40'21"N
Longitude: -4.6968 / 4°41'48"W
OS Eastings: 213623
OS Northings: 200533
OS Grid: SN136005
Mapcode National: GBR GF.7R2M
Mapcode Global: VH2PS.J7V4
Plus Code: 9C3QM8F3+27
Entry Name: Retaining wall to Pier Hill and former lifeboat house
Listing Date: 19 March 1951
Last Amended: 28 March 2002
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 26361
Building Class: Maritime
ID on this website: 300026361
Location: Situated on the E side of the harbour.
County: Pembrokeshire
Town: Tenby
Community: Tenby (Dinbych-y-pysgod)
Community: Tenby
Built-Up Area: Tenby
Traditional County: Pembrokeshire
Tagged with: House
Retaining wall to the harbour access, C19 masonry, but presumably on the line of the original harbour approach. Shown on 1817 Charles Norris view. The old lifeboat house, built in 1852 by the Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners Royal Benevolent Soc. for the first Tenby lifeboat and in use until the construction of a new house on Castle Beach in 1862, is a lean-to structure between the wall and the Fishermen's Rooms.
Retaining wall, squared rock-faced grey limestone, with rubble stone sloping parapet wall along Pier Hill. Wall rises in heignt from N end curved junction with pier to high S end against Penniless Cove Hill. Lifeboat house is a lean-to structure against right hand end, between wall and the Fishermen's Rooms. Slate lean-to roof and grey stone tooled jambs to entry, shouldered in to carry lintel.
Included for group value with the other Harbour structures and the houses on Pier Hill.
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