The Royal Playhouse Cinema is a Grade II listed building in the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 26 April 1977. Cinema.
The Royal Playhouse Cinema
- WRENN ID
- half-rubblework-brook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Pembrokeshire Coast National Park
- Constituency
- Mid and South Pembrokeshire MP: Henry Tufnell (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 26 April 1977
- Type
- Cinema
- Address
- The Royal Playhouse Cinema, Tenby
- OS grid reference
- SN 132 006
- Coordinates
- 51.67317, -4.70223
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Royal Playhouse Cinema is a cinema building featuring painted stucco and corrugated asbestos roofs. Its facade consists of a layout with one central bay flanked by three bays on each side, topped with a parapet, cornice, and a central projection that has a moulded pediment with a blank roundel. The center of the facade includes three tall arched recesses, with the middle one being slightly larger and containing a small blind arched panel. This area is framed by four thin pilasters that support three moulded arches. The side bays also have tall arched recesses with blind arched panels and pilaster framing with moulded arches. The central entrance features plain square-headed double doors with an overlight, while the outer bays have single doors. The side walls are roughcast and plain.
The building has undergone significant alterations, but a gently pitched curved fronted balcony remains, adorned with Art Deco motifs on the front. Notably, the proscenium arch with a cornice and fluted pilasters, which was mentioned in 1977, has been removed.
Local climate
The Royal Playhouse Cinema 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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