Oakfield House including forecourt railings is a Grade II listed building in the Pembrokeshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 14 July 1981. Town house.
Oakfield House including forecourt railings
- WRENN ID
- lapsed-barrel-harvest
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Constituency
- Mid and South Pembrokeshire MP: Henry Tufnell (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 14 July 1981
- Type
- Town house
- Address
- Oakfield House including forecourt railings, 88 Main Street, Pembroke
- OS grid reference
- SM 986 014
- Coordinates
- 51.67522, -4.91365
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Oakfield House, a semi-detached town house, is constructed of painted stucco and features a roof behind a parapet. The building stands three storeys tall with a cellar, and its front elevation consists of two bays that are offset to the left, with a doorway located in the inner bay, mirroring the adjoining house. The upper floors have later 19th-century 4-pane sash windows, with the top ones being square. The original ground floor window on the left is a 16-pane sash. A plain stringcourse runs below the parapet.
Access to the house is via a flight of three stone and slate steps leading up to a 20th-century rebuilt portico porch situated on a 20th-century paved platform. The portico features two timber columns with pilaster responds, a frieze divided into two bands, and a cornice adorned with small dentils, all under a flat roof. The recessed doorway has a renewed architrave, an overlight with two square panes surrounded by thin marginal panes, and an original six-panel door with the top panels raised and fielded, featuring quadrant corner rebates. To the right of the entrance, outside the forecourt, there is a door leading to a through passage.
The east side wall is roughcast and has a parapet that is returned and then stepped back, leading to a side wall that also features a stringcourse and parapet. Most windows on this side are from the 20th century, including an arched stairlight with radiating glazing bars and a slate sill, as well as a 20th-century ground floor door. The north end of the building is four storeys high with one bay and has 20th-century windows, the top one breaking the stringcourse under the parapet, which steps up in the centre.
The forecourt is stone flagged and includes two broad grey limestone steps leading down from the approach to the portico steps. It is enclosed by 19th-century rendered dwarf walls topped with grey stone copings and cast-iron railings. The iron railings feature chamfered uprights that rise in pairs to form pointed arches beneath the top rail, along with moulded finials and a chamfered double bottom rail. The gate has a similar design with dog bars and finials, although the rails on the right side are missing.
The building has been altered for conversion into flats, but the staircase remains intact inside the east side door. It features a broad stair that rises with returns in four flights, complete with a continuous curving ramped rail that is scrolled at the foot, square balusters, and scrolled tread ends. Some six-panel doors are present in the ground floor flat, while the upper floors have not been inspected.
Local climate
Oakfield House including forecourt railings 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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