Former Lifeboat House is a Grade II listed building in the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 28 March 2002. Lifeboat house.
Former Lifeboat House
- WRENN ID
- grey-brass-vetch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Pembrokeshire Coast National Park
- Constituency
- Mid and South Pembrokeshire MP: Henry Tufnell (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 28 March 2002
- Type
- Lifeboat house
- Address
- Former Lifeboat House, Tenby
- OS grid reference
- SN 137 004
- Coordinates
- 51.67207, -4.69526
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The former lifeboat house is a single-storey building constructed from rock-faced grey limestone, featuring imitation slates at the eaves of the roof. It has broad openings at both ends, with the seaward end being blocked in and rendered. The landward end retains its original large four-leaf folding doors, with the jambs corbelled in at the tops to support a steel lintel.
The side wall displays three elliptical-arched recesses, each with stone voussoirs forming the arches, and square piers in between. The stonework has tooled leading edges, and the recesses are set on rock-faced chamfered plinths. Each recess frames a small cambered-headed window, also with stone voussoirs, and features three-light glazing with top-lights and rock-faced stone sills. There are three iron vents located below the sills and three more positioned between the arch-heads and the eaves. A plaque from 1895 is located at the center of the building. The seaward gable end has a similar window above the blocked exit.
The roof is supported by three-bay pine construction with wishbone trusses.
Local climate
Former Lifeboat House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,210 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% 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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