Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Plas-y-Coed
Llansteffan, Carmarthenshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Llansteffan, Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire, designated on 5 November 2002.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 5 November 2002
- Locality
- Llansteffan
- Town
- Carmarthen
- Community
- Llansteffan
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.77015, -4.39248
- Cadw reference
- 27065
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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)
- 1920 · Sheet 100. Llanelly. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Set well back from the street, situated beyond a lawned forecourt with decorative railings, immediately S of Park Villa.
History
Later C19 detached house possibly built by David Jenkins, builder, of Llansteffan in 1874. It was probably occupied by Mary James, farmer, in 1881. One of a pair of villas with Park House adjoining.
Exterior
House, unpainted roughcast and stucco with hipped slate eaves roof and red brick end stacks. Two storeys, three-window facade with channelled piers to angles and matching jambs to first floors windows, the heads with incised voussoirs. Sash windows with marginal glazing bars and slate sills. Ground floor 4-panel door with rectangular overlight in wide timber doorcase with cornice on console brackets. Flanking ground floor bays have 3-sided canted bay windows with dwarf stucco walls beneath continuous stone sills and sashes with marginal glazing bars. Hipped slate roofs.
Interior
Not inspected.
Reason for designation
Included as a good late C19 villa of definite quality and character forming a pair with Park View.
Nearby in the register
- Park VillaDomesticunder 1 mi
- Railings and area walls at Plas-y-Coed and Park Villa.Domesticunder 1 mi
- Cyncoed, including area railings.Domesticunder 1 mi
- Osbourne House, including area railings.Domesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.