Former Guard House is a Grade II* listed building in the Pembrokeshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 18 January 1974. Guard house. 1 related planning application.
Former Guard House
- WRENN ID
- still-pilaster-rook
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Constituency
- Mid and South Pembrokeshire MP: Henry Tufnell (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 18 January 1974
- Type
- Guard house
- Address
- Former Guard House, The Dockyard, Pembroke Dock, SA72 6TD
- OS grid reference
- SM 960 036
- Coordinates
- 51.69433, -4.95264
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The former guard house, built around 1840-1845, is constructed from rock-faced grey limestone and features a slate hipped eaves roof with a stone stack at the apex. This two-storey building has a three-window main front, a deep single-storey portico, and set-back two-storey wings with one window each. The walling is distinctive, using large stones on the lower level and smaller stones on the first floor, with grey ashlar dressings that include a plinth, rusticated quoins on the main block, and rusticated surrounds around the openings.
On the first floor, there are three 12-pane sash windows, while the ground floor has two arch-headed windows flanking a central arched doorway that features a panelled door and a radiating bar fanlight. The ground floor is set within a deep colonnaded verandah supported by four thin Roman Doric stone columns, which carry a plain two-step cornice and a flat roof. Structural ironwork is visible on the underside of the roof. Each end wall of the main block has a window on each floor, and the set-back wings have a similar 12-pane sash window on the first floor, along with a band and a door with an overlight. There are no angle quoins present.
Local climate
Former Guard House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,140 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 2 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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