5:00pm Sunday 25th January 2009
By Ruth Davies
A former workingmen’s club in Tenby is among nine historic buildings in Wales to be offered grants for essential repairs and restoration work.
The currently unoccupied Guild House in Cresswell Street is being offered £11,250 by the Welsh Assembly for the work.
The Assembly describes the building as ‘an unusual former mid-to-later 19th century workingmen’s club’ and ‘prominent within the conservation area of Tenby’.
The Pembrokeshire Coast National Park Authority buildings conservation officer, Rob Scourfield, said the property is ‘a good Victorian townhouse with some nice features, including an unusual chimney stack’.
The grant is among £385,000 being shared between a variety of structures, including the transporter bridge in Newport, Gwent; land at Foley House, High Street and Goat Street, Haverfordwest and the South Quay Wall at Pembroke.
Assembly heritage minister, Alun Ffred Jones said: “The grant offers are for a wide range of historic buildings across Wales, including many important aspects of our industrial heritage, and will ensure that some of our most important buildings are maintained for the enjoyment of future generations.”
The Pembrokeshire grants have been welcomed by Plaid Cymru mid west Wales AM Nerys Evans.
“Pembrokeshire has a rich and varied built heritage, and it’s important that this is maintained,” she said.
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