Pillpriory Ruins is a Grade II* listed building in the Pembrokeshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 28 January 1963. Shop.

Pillpriory Ruins

WRENN ID
small-porch-burdock
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Pembrokeshire
Constituency
Mid and South Pembrokeshire MP: Henry Tufnell (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
28 January 1963
Type
Shop
Address
Pillpriory Ruins, Milford Haven
OS grid reference
SM 902 072
Coordinates
51.72478, -5.03803
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Pillpriory Ruins are a Grade II* listed structure featuring a broad unmoulded pointed arch made of purplish rubble stone with rough voussoirs. On the eastern side, there are clear indications of a chancel gable, which includes a tall arched light at the apex and walls that rise as shoulders on either side, adorned with narrow lancets. The northern side has the remains of a mural stair buttress. There are also the beginnings of a plain pointed arch extending west from the northwest angle.

Historical prints indicate that there was once an additional storey above, which featured two lancets. This upper section was already crumbling in a 1771 engraving by Picot but appeared complete, though possibly conjectural, in an early 19th-century view by Gastineau. It is noted that this section is said to have collapsed in 1826, according to Lewis’s Topographical Dictionary. The site is designated as a Scheduled Ancient Monument.

Local climate

Pillpriory Ruins 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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