Nos. 11 & 11a Main Street (Willing House) is a Grade II listed building in the Pembrokeshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 2 October 1951. House.
Nos. 11 & 11a Main Street (Willing House)
- WRENN ID
- carved-quoin-furze
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Constituency
- Mid and South Pembrokeshire MP: Henry Tufnell (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 2 October 1951
- Type
- House
- Address
- Nos. 11 & 11a Main Street (Willing House), Pembroke
- OS grid reference
- SM 983 015
- Coordinates
- 51.67607, -4.91814
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Nos. 11 and 11a Main Street, known as Willing House, is a terraced building that is notably lower than the adjacent Lion Hotel on the right and the Old Kings Arms on the left. The exterior is finished in painted roughcast, topped with a steep imitation-slate roof that flares out at the base, marking the site of a former parapet. There is a rendered stack on the right side against the wall of No. 9. The building comprises two storeys with two roof lights in the attic.
It features four bays, with the right bay containing a two-storey hipped projection that has full glazing under the eaves on the upper floor front, arranged in five long panes, with two panes on each return. The ground floor includes a large plate glass window at the front and a narrow window to the left side. The main section to the right has three upper windows: a four-pane sash on the left, a hornless 12-pane sash in the centre, and an 8-pane sash on the right, all of which exhibit the thick glazing bars typical of the earlier 18th century. The ground floor also has a flat-headed 20th-century entrance leading to an arcade of shops on the right, along with a late 20th-century projecting shopfront that features a broad fascia and flat top. This shopfront replaced an earlier projecting design from 1981 that included a fascia, modillion cornice, Ionic pilasters, and a central doorway with scroll consoles.
At the rear, there is a wing with a hipped roof. The western side of the ground floor has been modernised for use as a café, and the ceiling beams noted in 1981 are no longer visible. A small shop on the eastern side has an entrance from an internal through-passage, with another door further in providing access to the stairs. The dog-leg staircase features late 19th or 20th-century spiral twisted newels with ball finials and bobbin-turned thin rails. On the first floor, there are two visible beams.
Local climate
Nos. 11 & 11a Main Street (Willing 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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