The Old Printing House is a Grade II listed building in the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 4 February 1991. Commercial building.

The Old Printing House

WRENN ID
small-chalk-rye
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Pembrokeshire Coast National Park
Constituency
Mid and South Pembrokeshire MP: Henry Tufnell (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
4 February 1991
Type
Commercial building
Address
The Old Printing House, 20 Main Street, Solfach Isaf/Lower Solva, Solva
OS grid reference
SM 806 244
Coordinates
51.87503, -5.18871
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Old Printing House is a substantial house dating from the late 18th century or early 19th century. It is constructed with colourwashed render and features nogged brick eaves, a medium-pitch slate roof, and short stone end stacks. The building has a long three-storey front with three windows. On either side of the central door, there are twelve-pane sash windows with wood-panelled reveals and a moulded wood cornice. The first floor has a central four-pane sash window, while the outer windows have been lengthened and widened in the 20th century to accommodate tripartite two-four-two pane sashes. The upper windows are four-pane, and all windows have slate sills. The front garden is enclosed by a rendered, coped low wall, which is complemented by early 20th-century Art Nouveau cast-iron low rails and a gate. To the right, there is a one-window extension built over a carriageway, featuring a large square oriel window on a rendered base, a slate roof, and a brick end stack.

Local climate

The Old Printing House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 3 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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