Somerset House is a Grade II listed building in the Pembrokeshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 1 July 1974. Terraced house.
Somerset House
- WRENN ID
- other-cellar-coral
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Constituency
- Mid and South Pembrokeshire MP: Henry Tufnell (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 1 July 1974
- Type
- Terraced house
- Address
- Somerset House, 8 Dark Street, Haverfordwest
- OS grid reference
- SM 951 156
- Coordinates
- 51.80167, -4.97202
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Somerset House is a terraced house featuring unpainted roughcast and a close-eaved slate roof, with a brick stack on the left end. The building stands three storeys tall and is double-fronted. It has a central door flanked by two 9-pane hornless sash windows on the top floor, a 12-pane hornless sash window on the left side of the first floor, and a larger horned 4-pane sash window on the right side. The ground floor has 12-pane sash windows on both the left and right sides. The central doorcase is adorned with pilasters, a frieze, and a moulded cornice. The door itself is a 6-panel design with the upper four panels glazed and features a plain overlight above. At the rear, there is a rendered gabled wing with a 9-pane window in the gable end, and to the left side of the main range, there is a 9-pane upper window. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Somerset House 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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- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2002
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- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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