Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
The Close
Meidrim, Carmarthenshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Meidrim, Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire, designated on 8 July 2002.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 8 July 2002
- Locality
- Meidrim
- Town
- Carmarthen
- Community
- Meidrim
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.86124, -4.48596
- Cadw reference
- 26747
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
Situated on the W side of the B4299 some 200m N of the crossroads in the centre of Meidrim.
History
Earlier C19 house remodelled in late C19, c1885. Marked on 1841 Tithe map as Close, a holding of 46 acres (18.6 hectares). Occupied at that time by Howard Griffiths and owned by George Bowen who owned seven farms in the community totalling some 690 acres (279.5 hectares). Owned by Mrs Evans in 1926. Front roughcast c1939, windows renewed in 1972.
Exterior
House, painted roughcast with slate roofs. L-plan, 2 storeys with 3-window front range. Front range has flat eaves with paired brackets, yellow brick end stacks and stucco angle quoins. First floor windows have eared stucco surrounds, marginal glazing bars, thin sill course below, ground floor 2 later C19 timber bay windows with bell-cast slate roofs, moulded cornices with brackets and dentils, and fluted pilasters. Sashes have shaped heads to top panes. Centre C20 door in eared surround. Overhanging verges with brackets to gable ends. NW rear wing has E side timber casements renewed in C20, said to replace sashes. First floor has long stair light to left, then small window and then 2 paired casements. Ground floor has small window under stair light to left, and 3 paired casements, the centre one possibly a former door. Small red brick end stack, added lean-to on end wall. W side of rear wing is of painted rubble stone. Single-storey outbuilding attached to W end of N lean-to, rubble stone with brick W stack.
Interior
Not inspected.
Reason for designation
Included as a C19 village house with good late C19 detail to the bays, and as part of a small courtyard group with the outbuildings.
Nearby in the register
- L-plan outbuilding to E of The CloseAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Lofted outbuilding to N of The CloseAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Bethel Calvinistic Methodist ChapelReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Church of St DavidReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.