No 2 Rock Houses is a Grade II listed building in the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 March 1951. Terraced house.

No 2 Rock Houses

WRENN ID
drifting-courtyard-snow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Pembrokeshire Coast National Park
Constituency
Mid and South Pembrokeshire MP: Henry Tufnell (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
19 March 1951
Type
Terraced house
Address
No 2 Rock Houses, Tenby
OS grid reference
SN 136 003
Coordinates
51.67099, -4.69673
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

No 2 Rock Houses is a terraced house that forms a pair with No 1 Rock Houses. Both houses share a single design and feature a painted stuccoed street front that rises three storeys and includes a basement. The façade has two bays divided by three Ionic pilasters that extend from a band above the ground floor, supporting a heavily moulded entablature with a pulvinated frieze, cornice, and parapet. Each house has a one-window range and an inner doorway, with 12-pane hornless sash windows. The ground floor windows are not aligned with those on the upper floors.

There is a broad flight of three stone steps leading up to the paired central Ionic doorcases, which have recessed six-panel doors with overlights. Cast-iron boot scrapers are set into the stone. The basement has slate steps leading down, a four-paned horned sash window, and a half-glazed panelled door.

The area railings are similar to those found in front of Lexden Terrace, positioned to the left of the steps, with a gate to the left that provides access to the basement steps. The rear seaward side is slate-hung and features a parapet. It has three storeys and two bays overall, with two dormers, two two-storey canted bays, and two pairs of four-pane sashes on the upper floor.

Local climate

No 2 Rock Houses 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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