The Priory Inn (including 3 properties formerly known Priory Farmhouse, The Steps above Priory Farmh is a Grade II* listed building in the Pembrokeshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 28 January 1963. House.
The Priory Inn (including 3 properties formerly known Priory Farmhouse, The Steps above Priory Farmh
- WRENN ID
- half-tower-jackdaw
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Constituency
- Mid and South Pembrokeshire MP: Henry Tufnell (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 28 January 1963
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Priory Inn (including 3 properties formerly known Priory Farmhouse, The Steps above Priory Farmh, Milford Haven
- OS grid reference
- SM 902 072
- Coordinates
- 51.72444, -5.03819
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Priory Inn, which includes three properties formerly known as Priory Farmhouse and The Steps above Priory Farmhouse, is a building of historical significance dating back to the medieval period. It is constructed of rubble stone with slate roofs and features an L-plan main building with later additions at each end. The building has two storeys.
The western section has a stone stack at the west end and an outside stone staircase on the south front leading to a first-floor door situated between raised piers that were part of a former pent porch. There is a small sash window on each side of the door. The eastern section has rough masonry and a small outside stack that is corbelled out from the first floor, with two first-floor sash windows positioned beyond it, above a door and window. The roof ridge reveals part of the south gable of a rear wing, which features a narrow apex moulded stone lancet that appears to be medieval. This rear wing is short and has an outside stack at the north end, which is also corbelled out from above the ground floor, showing signs that the gable has been rebuilt. This section contains a medieval stone vault.
Later additions to the building include a single-storey range at the west end and a low two-storey section at the east end, which is double fronted with unaligned windows and a stack at the northeast corner. All windows were renewed during a restoration in 1985, featuring new stone voussoirs and new sills, with door heads also similarly renewed.
The west end features stone jambs of a large fireplace with an arch above that dates to the 1985 restoration. The central rear vaulted room has a rough stone vault that is similar to those found in The Steps.
Local climate
The Priory Inn (including 3 properties formerly known Priory Farmhouse, The Steps above Priory Farmh 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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