Priory Court is a Grade II listed building in the Pembrokeshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 1 July 1974. Former workhouse, flats.

Priory Court

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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Pembrokeshire
Constituency
Mid and South Pembrokeshire MP: Henry Tufnell (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
1 July 1974
Type
Former workhouse, flats
Address
Priory Court, Haverfordwest, SA61 1UL
OS grid reference
SM 955 151
Coordinates
51.79761, -4.9662
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Priory Court is a former workhouse that has been converted into flats. The building is constructed from squared rubble stone and features flat-eaved slate roofs with brick chimneys. It has a front range and cruciform rear ranges that partly enclose four square courtyards, and it stands two storeys tall.

The northeast front range consists of nine bays, with the three central bays projecting slightly and topped with three joined coped gables. Each gable includes a blind cross loop, and the gables have shoulders at their outer edges. There are two parallel raised bands between the floors and a raised plinth. The upper floor is adorned with large 16-pane sash windows that have stone sills and stone voussoirs, while the ground floor features small-paned cross-windows, also with stone voussoirs and stone sills. The central three bays contain a central window flanked by two segmental pointed chamfered doorways, with the left doorway now converted into a window.

At the rear, the building has a cruciform plan made of plain rubble stone, also two storeys high with slate roofs. Some original cross-windows remain on the ground floor, while the upper floor features pairs of two-light small-paned casements, along with renewed 12-pane and 16-pane sash windows. All windows have stone voussoirs and stone sills, with cemented reveals. The four ranges of the building enclose four paved courts, and there is an additional long range at the rear. A short two-storey, four-bay range at the southern end of the southern wing has the same double raised band and raised plinth as the front range, with renewed glazing featuring 12-pane sashes above and long 24-pane sashes below.

The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

Priory Court sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,060 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 4 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 98% 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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