Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Cross House
St. Clears, Carmarthenshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 11 June 2001
- Locality
- St Clears
- Town
- Carmarthen
- Community
- St. Clears
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.81376, -4.49579
- Cadw reference
- 25474
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
Set back from the road between Cross House Stores and a private lane.
History
Village house, earlier C19, marked on the 1842 Tithe map.
Exterior
Small house of 2 parallel ranges, one and a half storeys, double-fronted with painted rendered facade, pitched slate roof, red brick left end stack and plain timber bargeboard. Ground floor has 6-panelled door set in painted timber doorcase with console brackets under open pediment between 4-pane sashes with cambered heads and slate sills. Upper storey flanking bays have similar sashes breaking eaves under timber gablets with bargeboards. Left end is painted rubble stone, with similar but lower end gable of rear range, also with brick end stack. Right end abuts Cross House Stores.
Interior
Not inspected.
Reason for designation
Included as a smaller house retaining traditional character of group value with adjoining shop and churchyard lychgate.
Nearby in the register
- Cross House StoresCommercialunder 1 mi
- Lychgate to the Parish Church, including wall to NMiscellaneousunder 1 mi
- The Town HallCivilunder 1 mi
- The Butcher's Arms InnCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.