Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Cross House
St. Clears, Carmarthenshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in St Clears, Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire, designated on 11 June 2001.
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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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1860 · 41. Caermathen. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Sheet 10. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. . (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 229 Carmarthen (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (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.