Marven House and forecourt wall and railings is a Grade II listed building in the Pembrokeshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 29 July 2005. Terraced house.

Marven House and forecourt wall and railings

WRENN ID
night-bonework-dale
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Pembrokeshire
Constituency
Mid and South Pembrokeshire MP: Henry Tufnell (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
29 July 2005
Type
Terraced house
Address
Marven House and forecourt wall and railings, 72 Main Street, Pembroke
OS grid reference
SM 985 014
Coordinates
51.67536, -4.91452
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Marven House is a terraced house dating from the 19th century, featuring painted stucco and a slate roof. It has a rendered stack at the left end and a brick stack at the right end, which is shared with No 74. The house is tall, three storeys high, with a two-window facade that is offset to the right. It has a plain eaves band, a string course with an incised line between the upper floors, and a moulded projecting course beneath the first floor. The upper floors have paired plate-glass sashes beneath a single cambered head, with painted slate sills. The ground floor features a large 2-4-2-pane tripartite sash to the right and a tall narrow doorway also to the right, which has 'Marven House' inscribed in the overlight. Access to the door is via five stone steps leading up to a three-panel door, with the lower panel being fielded.

At the rear, there is an outshut to the left and a gabled addition in the centre. The front of the property has a low retaining wall made of grey limestone rubble, leading to a paved basement. This wall is topped with tooled sandstone coping and features an ornate cast-iron balustrade. The balustrade consists of pierced cast-iron panels supported by bulbous cast-iron standards with pointed finials. The panels display a pattern of concentric circles linked by a diagonal cross, surrounded by vertical and diagonally crossed bars. The gateposts are similar to the standards but have tubular bases, and the gate matches the railings, featuring dog bars beneath the circle.

The interior of Marven House has been significantly altered due to a conversion into flats in the late 20th century, which included the replacement of the staircase. The panelled hall arch is supported on large later 19th-century brackets.

Local climate

Marven House and forecourt wall and railings sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,160 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 3 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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