Wilton House is a Grade II listed building in the Pembrokeshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 1 July 1974. Hotel, house. 2 related planning applications.
Wilton House
- WRENN ID
- quartered-moulding-solstice
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Constituency
- Mid and South Pembrokeshire MP: Henry Tufnell (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 1 July 1974
- Type
- Hotel, house
- Address
- Wilton House, 6 Quay Street, Haverfordwest, SA61 1BG
- OS grid reference
- SM 954 156
- Coordinates
- 51.80158, -4.96799
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Wilton House, now a hotel, is a two-storey building dating from the 19th century, featuring painted stucco and a deep-eaved slate roof supported by closely spaced fretted brackets, along with brick end stacks. The façade has five bays and is adorned with a small dentil cornice and a lattice-work band beneath the eaves. Each end of the building has a channelled full-height pier.
On the first floor, there are three windows located in the second, fourth, and fifth bays. These include a large timber oriel window with plate glass long sashes and a moulded cornice, as well as two plate glass sash windows in moulded architraves with sill brackets. The ground floor features a recessed door with two long arched panels set in a pilastered doorcase that includes a frieze and cornice to the left. There is also a wide tripartite plate-glass sash window in a moulded architrave with a panel below a broad sill, and another plate glass sash window in a similar architrave with a panel below the sill, but this one has a stucco moulded cornice above it. The main entry is broad and recessed, also in a pilastered doorcase with a frieze and cornice, featuring an arched-panelled door with sidelights. Finally, there is another tripartite plate-glass sash window in a moulded architrave with a panel below a broad sill, supported by console brackets with masks that carry a moulded cornice. The broad north gable end has overhanging verges with bargeboards and a large stuccoed plaque that reads 'Wilton House Hotel'.
The rear of the building has not been inspected but is said to be three storeys high, made of painted stone with irregular windows, some of which are sashes with 19th-century coloured glass margins, and features a wing projecting from each end.
The interior has been partly inspected and includes ornate plaster ceilings from the mid to late 19th century, with some retaining their original colouring. There are three ceilings on the ground floor and one on the first floor, decorated with naturalistic flowers and fruit. The entrance hall ceiling is panelled, featuring ornately re-gilded ornamentation on flat ribs and painted complex designs in each panel, along with small wall corbels. The staircase leading to the attic has a thick rail and cast-iron balusters, and the first floor landing window is adorned with etched coloured glass margins.
Local climate
Wilton 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2004
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- 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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