Daylight streams through a gutted ceiling onto a mess of rubble. This is the sad sight of a listed building in Haverfordwest High Street which once housed the iconic Baker's dress shop.
The formidable pile of planks, paint pots and even tree-like foliage looms several feet high. This depressing sight is on offer to anyone with the morbid curiosity to peer through the windowfront, though stepping backwards does little to improve the view. The grimy exterior is wizened with cracks, while poles support a part-broken bay window. A few months ago one of the three-storey site's window-frames crashed onto the pavement from a height.
The building stretching across 7, 9 and 11 High Street is among the last timber-framed medieval houses in the town, according to its Grade-II protected listing. Its owner is Harry Nicholas Heywood, a 56-year-old entrepreneur whose biggest business made a net profit of almost £1.9million last year.
