Pembroke Market Emporium (Former National School) is a Grade II listed building in the Pembrokeshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 14 July 1981. Educational building.

Pembroke Market Emporium (Former National School)

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Pembrokeshire
Constituency
Mid and South Pembrokeshire MP: Henry Tufnell (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
14 July 1981
Type
Educational building
OS grid reference
SM 986 013
Coordinates
51.67493, -4.91387
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Pembroke Market Emporium, formerly known as the National School, is a single-storey building constructed in the 19th century. It features painted roughcast walls with stucco dressings and a slate roof. The building has a narrow Tudor-style front that leads to a long schoolroom running south.

At the gable end, there is an attic with a shouldered gable, moulded stucco copings, and a stuccoed bellcote, which is likely not original. The bellcote is gabled and slightly projects on three corbels, with a pointed chamfered bell opening that is currently missing its bell. The windows are set in chamfered reveals, with an attic single light and two high-set ground floor windows, all featuring moulded hoodmoulds linked by a string course across the centre. A slate plaque inscribed 'National School 1861' is positioned above the chamfered recess.

The central doorway has a four-centred arch with a chamfered surround and is stopped above a painted tooled limestone plinth. The doorway contains a boarded door fitted with applied cast-iron false hinges. The windows have 2-light glazing with pointed heads, which were renewed in the 20th century, while the attic light has 20th-century plate glass.

On the west side, the wall is rendered on the left, with the remainder constructed of rubble stone, and the windows feature red-brick heads. The lower section is located at the southern end of the building. Inside, there is an entrance lobby leading to a single long room with a three-sided boarded ceiling. The west side has four windows, while the south end contains a blank arch.

Local climate

Pembroke Market Emporium (Former National School) 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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