Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
The Sticks Hotel
Llansteffan, Carmarthenshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 5 November 2002
- Locality
- Llansteffan
- Town
- Carmarthen
- Community
- Llansteffan
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.77126, -4.39237
- Cadw reference
- 27070
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 directly N of the junction with Church Street, on the street line immediately E of Red Lion House.
History
Hotel, possibly C18 altered in C19. Formerly the Union Hall Inn, occupied by Griffith Davies in 1841, and Lettice Harries by 1861. Thomas Rees was keeping a hotel here in 1881. Repairs and improvements were made in 1885.
Exterior
Hotel, painted stucco, three storeys, three-window range, offset from left. Gablets to eaves-breaking attic windows, pitched slate roofs and stone end stack to left. Centre 4-panel painted timber door with rectangular overlight, in raised rusticated stucco doorcase, with keystone. To left is 8-pane sash with painted slate sill. Similar openings to first floor left and centre. To right of entrance is tripartite 2-8-2-pane sash and matching window to first floor right. Upper storey has three stuccoed gables, each over eaves-breaking 4-pane small sashes with slate sills. Wide painted eaves board and cast iron rainwater goods. Raised plinth.
Added 2-storey range to right, painted render with plinth. Slate roof with slightly lower eaves. Double-fronted with tripartite C20 plate glass sashes each floor each side of C20 door. Extreme right has recessed door with overlight and first floor plate glass sash.
Interior
Mid C19 staircase visible on the ground floor, the remainder much altered.
Reason for designation
Included as a good, substantial public house of C19 character, and for group value with Red Lion House.
Nearby in the register
- Telephone Call-box outside the Old Pound.Communicationsunder 1 mi
- The StoresCommercialunder 1 mi
- CartrefDomesticunder 1 mi
- Church of St YstyffanReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.