Picton House is a Grade II listed building in the Pembrokeshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 14 July 1981. Townhouse.
Picton House
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-chapel-quill
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Constituency
- Mid and South Pembrokeshire MP: Henry Tufnell (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 14 July 1981
- Type
- Townhouse
- Address
- Picton House, 59 Main Street, Pembroke
- OS grid reference
- SM 985 014
- Coordinates
- 51.67523, -4.91496
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Picton House is a terraced house dating from the 19th century, featuring painted stucco and a slate roof with a rendered stone stack on the left end. The building stands two storeys tall with a cellar and attic. It has two eaves dormers that contain 4-pane sash windows with sloping roofs. On the first floor, there are four 4-pane horned sash windows. The ground floor includes a 20th-century window in the left bay, a house door in the second bay, and a late 19th-century shopfront on the right. The shopfront has a plate glass projecting window with a single front pane, curved glass corners, a deep fascia, and a cornice. The fascia and cornice extend to the left over a 20th-century glazed shop door with an overlight, and over a narrower 4-panel house door with an overlight inscribed 'Picton House'. There is a plain pier between the doors. At the rear, there is a large stone rectangular stack on the wall face to the left, along with a lean-to structure on the rear left.
Inside, the hallway features one plain six-panel door, which is boarded over on the inside, leading into a small room on the left that has a blocked fireplace. The hall has a door on the right that leads to the shop, and a cupboard at the foot of the stairs with panelled doors. The staircase, located on the back wall, is designed in the Chinese Chippendale style, with a rail pattern of crossed diagonals between widely spaced uprights, creating a broken rhythm. The closed panelled string and moulded rail lead up one short flight to the first-floor landing, a second flight to a landing over the stairwell, and a third short flight to the attic. The landing rails have a slightly different pattern. The shop contains later 19th-century shelves on the back wall. The cellar, located under the front room, is said to be cut into bedrock but has not been seen.
Local climate
Picton House 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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