Pembroke Dock: 44% of homes built before 1919

Former Dockyard ChapelGrade II* listedNorth East Dockyard TowerGrade II* listedChurch of Saint John the EvangelistGrade II listedOld Pier HouseGrade II listedPembroke Haven Yacht Club at Hobbs PointGrade II listed+10See all photos

Photos from Wikimedia Commons and Geograph, copied to our own server, each credited to its photographer with its licence; names open the building’s page or its official list entry.

c. 1830

c. 1840

1914

1918

Public domain, from Wikimedia Commons, copied to our own server. Each credit opens the image’s page with its full description and history.

Cadw lists buildings of special architectural or historic interest in three grades: Grade I for buildings of exceptional interest, Grade II* for particularly important buildings of more than special interest, and Grade II for buildings of special interest. Listing protects the whole building, inside and out.

Every entry on Cadw’s register of listed buildings whose point lies inside the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary. One list entry can cover a terrace or a group of buildings. Neighbourhood dots: the population-weighted centre of each Census 2021 output area, coloured by its neighbourhood’s (LSOA’s) share of homes built before 1919 (Valuation Office Agency, March 2025).

Church Street12 listed

Laws Street8 listed

Prospect Place5 listed

The Terrace5 listed · 3 II*

Front Street3 listed

Of the 106 entries, 37 are named by a street address; the rest are named buildings such as churches, halls and bridges.

Cadw’s conservation areas via DataMapWales. Hectares are the part of each area inside the built-up area.

The first 31 entries were listed in 1974. 37 came in 1994. Only 2 have been added in the last 15 years.

4 scheduled monuments

Nationally important archaeological sites and monuments, protected by law; work on them needs consent from the Welsh Government (Cadw).

WartimeBomb stores at West end of Fort RoadModern; Magazine

Defensible Barracks, Pembroke DockPost Medieval/Modern; Barracks

Paterchurch Tower, Pembroke DockMedieval; Tower

South West Dockyard TowerPost Medieval/Modern; Tower

Two measures, each ranked against every UK town of 1,000 or more, with protected heritage counting twice as much as the age of homes. Protected heritage counts each listed building by its grade (Grade I three points, II* two, II one), each scheduled monument and battlefield two, and each registered park or garden by its grade; it is ranked both per 10,000 residents and as a total, so a village with one fine church doesn’t outrank a historic city. The second measure is the share of homes built before 1919, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records. History is a character grade: it describes the town and isn’t part of the overall grade.

35% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1900–18, which added 9.7% of today’s homes.

Valuation Office Agency, council tax stock of properties by build period, 31 March 2025, for the neighbourhoods (LSOAs) that make up the town, split by where their residents live. Homes with no recorded build period (0 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.

Everyone born in Pembroke Dock → Birthplaces from Wikidata; portraits from Wikimedia Commons.

Old houses are part of Pembroke Dock’s character: 44% of its homes were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. In all there are 106 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I, including Dockyard Chapel. Per resident, it has more listed heritage than 84% of UK towns. Only 96 of the 687 towns nearest its size have more Grade I buildings.

Church Street alone has 12 listed buildings. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1994. Of the whole list, 57% are houses, terraces and villas. Beyond that, it also has 4 scheduled monuments.