Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
20 King Street
Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire, designated on 19 May 1981.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 19 May 1981
- Community
- Carmarthen
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.85740, -4.30411
- Cadw reference
- 82112
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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 roughly midway along street.
History
Commercial premises apparently dated 1806, but external detail all later C19. In 1914 and 1926 listed with No 19 as David Williams, book-seller, the business later including antiques, the antiques business was housed in this building, the bookshop in No 19. The 2 shopfronts have matching carved heads, literary on No 19, grotesque (antique) on No 20. The house is said to have once been used as residence for High Court judges.
Exterior
House and shops, taller than Nos 19 and 21 adjoining, painted stucco with slate close eaved roof and no chimneys. Three bays, 3 storeys. Stone plaque in top right hand corner, eroded but apparently dated 1806. Early C19 fluted metal rainwater heads, possibly lead, with lead downpipe. Tripartite plate-glass sash windows to upper floors, outer top floor windows and first floor left window with cast-iron later C19 flower balconies on sills. Ground floor has 2 late C19 shops each with plate glass shop window with outer panelled pilaster and scrolled bracket carved with a grotesque face, and fascia and cornice above. Shop-windows canted in with shop doors, and recessed centre half-glazed double door to stairs to upper floors.
Interior
Two iron columns in shop windows marked The Old Foundry Co, Carmarthen. Stick baluster staircase to upper floors around small open well, with scrolled tread ends and ramped rail.
Reason for designation
Included as a prominent commercial frontage of late Georgian origins, retaining a good late C19 shopfront, a pair with that of No 19.
Nearby in the register
- 19 King StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- 37-8 King StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- 16-6a King StreetNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Lloyds BankCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.