Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
The Vicarage
Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 12 March 1992
- Locality
- Llanelli
- Community
- Llanelli
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.68593, -4.16322
- Cadw reference
- 11948
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Situated some 70 m back from Old Road approached by driveway beginning next to No 9.
History
1870-1 vicarage by G E Street of London built for parish of Saint Ellyw.
Exterior
Grey snecked rock-faced rubble stone with Bath stone dressings, grey slate roofs and terracotta ridges. Simplified Gothic style with varied gabled elevations. Two storeys with flush ashlar mullion and transom windows to main west and south elevations, mullion windows elsewhere. Complex roof form: main gabled west range with 2 east side stacks and parallel L-plan range to east and south end gable slightly lower than main range and advanced, taller north east rear gable and big north side outside chimneybreast. Chimneys had tall redbrick diagonally-set stacks, now truncated.
West front has 3-window range and diagonal south west buttress. Three-light ground floor windows with segmental pointed relieving arches, 3-light window to first floor left and two 2-light windows. North end gable blank except for door to demolished conservatory. South end gable has first floor 2-light window with brattished dripmould and pointed relieving arch, and ground floor bay projected to line of adjoining gable, roof hipped to south west and two 2-light windows to front with sill course continued across gable to right. Advanced gable to right has ground floor 3-light with segmental pointed relieving arch and first floor 2-light matching that to left. South east corner buttress. East side, in angle, has lean-to original porch against east facing wall and then, added later, parallel almost detached hipped-roofed porch with buttressed south end and pointed arched south door. Three-light east window. Main east wall has first floor pair of 3-light mullion windows to right. South wall of north east gable has first floor 3-light with relieving arch. East gable end has 5-light kitchen window below with relieving arch, high string course and 4-light attic window above with cambered relieving arch. On north side, a big outside chimneybreast to left with gabled outbuilding running north, centre eaves-breaking gable over attic 4-light mullion window and 2-light and single light window to each floor below. Window-less end-gable of west front to right, with door to demolished conservatory.
Interior
Unaltered Victorian parsonage interior with 6-panel doors, pine mantlepieces and open stair with pine Gothic balustrade.
Reason for designation
A very good example of a large vicarage by one of the major architects of the Victorian period.
Nearby in the register
- Ivy Cottage, including Gates and RailingsDomesticunder 1 mi
- Church of All SaintsReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Cilfig LodgeDomesticunder 1 mi
- War Memorial in All Saint's ChurchyardCommemorativeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.