Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Neuadd Llangathen
Llangathen, Carmarthenshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Llangathen, Carmarthenshire, designated on 30 January 2003.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Recreational
- Date of designation
- 30 January 2003
- Locality
- Llangathen
- Community
- Llangathen
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.88017, -4.06041
- Cadw reference
- 80852
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1860 map "41. Caermathen." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 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 · 212 Llandovery (Outline) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 212 Llandovery (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Approximately 200m WNW of Llangathen church, set back from a minor road between Broad Oak and Golden Grove.
History
Built as a temperance hall in 1906 by Mrs Mayhew of Aberglasney (details on a foundation stone). Mrs Mayhew and her husband Colonel Charles Mayhew were committed teetotallers who held Temperance rallies at Aberglasney, where they lived 1902-8.
Exterior
A Tudor-Gothic style village hall comprising a main gabled range with steeply pitched roof, shorter turrets projecting forwards at the ends, behind which are hipped lean-tos against the gable end of the main range. Walls are rendered in black-and-white style, the roof is slate. The front has 3 2-light bay windows, of which the outer are under outshut roofs, the inner with a hipped roof below a central gable. The windows have coloured glass above transoms. Between the windows are 2 boarded doors with strap hinges. The outer turrets have 4-light small-pane windows in the upper storey, below pyramidal roofs with iron finials. The L-hand turret has a foundation stone at plinth level. On the L side, the lean-to behind the turret has a central boarded door flanked by 3-light small-pane windows. The rear has bay windows and central gable similar to the front.
Interior
The main range has a 5-bay arched-brace roof.
Reason for designation
Listed as a public building of distinctive Edwardian character and a rare well-preserved temperance hall.
Nearby in the register
- AberglasneyDomesticunder 1 mi
- Aviaries at AberglasneyGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Gatehouse at AberglasneyDomesticunder 1 mi
- War Memorial in Llangathen ChurchyardCommemorativeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.