Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Former Reading room & Library
Llandeilo, Carmarthenshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Recreational
- Date of designation
- 24 June 1991
- Community
- Llandeilo
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.88311, -3.99217
- Cadw reference
- 11093
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1860 "41. Caermathen." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Reached via a narrow tunnel passage alongside No 115 opposite the Angel Hotel.
History
1851 rebuilding of a Calvinistic Methodist Chapel of l788. Later converted to use as a library and reading room.
Exterior
2 storey, snecked rubble masonry. Hipped tiled roof, boarded eaves, paired modillions.
l6 pane sash window set under eaves to lst floor level, stone voussoirs. Stone staircase with iron handrails up to broad depressed arched doorway, stone voussoirs. Radial fanlight over double doors with deep round arched moulded panels
Stone tablet commemorating rebuilding of l851 to right.
Reason for designation
Listed principally for elevation to tunnel passage.
Nearby in the register
- NO.115 Including tunnel passage & rear range to rightCommercialunder 1 mi
- Dyfed County Council Social Services DepartmentCommercialunder 1 mi
- The Castle HotelCommercialunder 1 mi
- Goldsmith, Jewellers, SilversmithsCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.