Former Drill Hall front buildings is a Grade II listed building in the Pembrokeshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 29 July 2005. Former drill hall. 2 related planning applications.

Former Drill Hall front buildings

WRENN ID
silver-bailey-ebony
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Pembrokeshire
Constituency
Mid and South Pembrokeshire MP: Henry Tufnell (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
29 July 2005
Type
Former drill hall
Address
Former Drill Hall front buildings, 8 Castle Terrace, Pembroke, SA71 4LA
OS grid reference
SM 982 015
Coordinates
51.67647, -4.91936
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The former drill hall front building is constructed from grey limestone and features a slate roof. It consists of two buildings that are separated by an archway. Above the archway, there is corbelling at the eaves level and a prominent rock-faced stone top with a square stone plaque that bears the Prince of Wales feathers and the inscription 'Pembrokeshire Territorial Force Drill Hall'. The arch itself is a high round shape, made with cut stone voussoirs and a large keystone. There are double iron gates adorned with some scrollwork on the top rails.

The two flanking buildings are two storeys high and have two bays each. They feature large windows with cambered heads, cut stone voussoirs, and stone sills. Each inner bay has a single window above an arched doorway, while each outer bay has paired windows under broad cambered heads on both floors. The windows have small panes in the upper sashes only. The doorways include recessed blind tympana and late 20th-century doors, with stone voussoirs and keystones.

The inner end walls and rear walls are painted roughcast, and there are brick square chimneys on the rear roofs just behind the ridges. The rear windows also have cambered heads and small panes in the upper sashes only. The rear of the arch is stuccoed.

Local climate

Former Drill Hall front buildings 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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  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2010
  • Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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