Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Morfa House
Kidwelly, Carmarthenshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 28 July 1998
- Locality
- Kidwelly/Cydweli
- Town
- Kidwelly
- Community
- Kidwelly
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.73714, -4.30839
- Cadw reference
- 20185
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 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Situated in terraced row on main road (A 484) some 40m S of Kidwelly Bridge.
History
Early C19 house with later C19 shop front.
Exterior
Pebbledash with slate roof and rendered end stacks. Three-storey, three-window range, off-set to left, with painted timber cornice and low parapet. Later C19 or C20 horned sashes, 4-pane square to upper floor, plate-glass to first floor, all with stone sills. Ground floor has fine Victorian painted timber shopfront with pilasters and overall entablature with cornice. Fascia lettering in raised capitals, painted to imitate marble: 'Morfa House' to left, and 'Chemist' to right. Pilasters frame house door to left, 4-panel with overlight, then three more pilasters frame shop door and window. Deeply recessed half-glazed shop door with overlight, aligned with centre windows above. Shop-window to right, 4-light with mid transom and elliptical-arched heads to lights. Pilaster between the shop window and shop door is broader than the others. Pilasters have plain stucco plinths and moulded caps.
Interior
Iron columns inside shop.
Reason for designation
Listed as a good late Georgian facade with rare complete Victorian shopfront.
Nearby in the register
- Capel SulReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Kidwelly Bridge/Pont CydweliTransportunder 1 mi
- Ruined Warehouse By Kidwelly BridgeCommercialunder 1 mi
- Castle MillIndustrialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.