The Customs House is a Grade II listed building in the Pembrokeshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 20 August 1975. Church.
The Customs House
- WRENN ID
- long-transept-fen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Constituency
- Mid and South Pembrokeshire MP: Henry Tufnell (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 20 August 1975
- Type
- Church
- Address
- The Customs House, The Docks, Milford Haven
- OS grid reference
- SM 900 059
- Coordinates
- 51.71277, -5.04032
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Customs House, built around 1794 and now functioning as Milford Haven Museum, is a three-storey structure made of red rubble stone, which was originally stuccoed or roughcast, topped with asbestos sheet roofing. The central section features a three-window design with a pedimental gable, believed to be the original part of the building, flanked by two-storey wings that have six windows each. These wings may be original or could have been added before 1812. The central gable includes a lunette but has lost all trace of its original mouldings. The openings on the first and second floors are vertically linked within sunk panels, while the ground floor showcases arched openings. The stone voussoirs are rough, and the ground and first floor feature 20th-century casement windows and doors.
The wings have hipped end gables and similar casement windows, although the first-floor windows on the left wing have had their lintels raised. The ground floor openings include blank arched heads above the casement windows or doors, with the left wing showing two windows and a door, while the right wing has three windows, one with a fanlight, and a door that has altered the original arch-head. The first floor contains a loading door in the fourth bay and a blank window in the sixth bay. The east end features a 20th-century brick lean-to, and there is a large 20th-century flat-roofed addition at the rear.
Inside, there are arcaded axial spine walls on the ground floor and arched recesses on the rear wall. A significant transverse arch spans the first floor of the east wing, with arches connecting the central section to the wings.
Local climate
The Customs House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,140 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% 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 2 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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