The former Sun Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 March 1951. A Post-Medieval Inn.
The former Sun Public House
- WRENN ID
- vast-eave-curlew
- 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
- Inn
- Period
- Post-Medieval
- Address
- The former Sun Public House, Tenby
- OS grid reference
- SN 133 005
- Coordinates
- 51.67238, -4.70031
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The former Sun Public House is an inn featuring two ranges made of painted stucco. On the right, at the corner of a narrow lane, there is a low two-storey range with a parapet above a moulded string course. The first floor has angle quoins, while the plain ground floor includes a fascia board between the floors. There is a single 20th-century window on the first floor with a thin surround and keystone, and a broad 20th-century ground floor window with four lights and top lights. The building has a raised plinth. The right return is similarly finished in stucco and is windowless, featuring a door with an overlight to the left and a wall-face chimney to the right. Beyond this is a section of surviving medieval walling, which is whitewashed rubble stone and reaches the same height as the building, with a low ground floor and a partially corbelled upper floor, but no windows.
To the left, there is a raised block supported on two corbels, and in the centre, a raised chimney breast on three corbels, with corbelling continuing to the right, interrupted by the head of a blocked door, with one corbel to the left and five to the right of the door. Further to the right is the side wall of the Crackwell Street range.
The taller block on the left, facing High Street, has a three-storey, two-bay front with a slate close-eaved roof. The upper floor features two four-pane horned sash windows, while the first floor has a canted oriel window with plate glass sashes and a hipped slate roof. The ground floor has an early 20th-century shopfront that is elliptical-arched, with a moulded leading edge, hoodmould, and keystone. The later 20th-century glazing includes three large top lights above two plate glass panes, with a door to the right that has an overlight.
The rear facing Crackwell Street is also painted stucco, three-storey, three-bay, with close eaves and red brick end stacks. The upper floors have plate glass sashes, while the ground floor features a low centre doorway with a rusticated surround, a vermiculated keystone, and a door with two long panels, flanked by windows with hoodmoulds.
The interior has been modernised.
Local climate
The former Sun Public 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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