Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Hamilton House
Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 28 November 2003
- Community
- Carmarthen
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.85655, -4.31196
- Cadw reference
- 82161
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 on the street line some 90m W of the junction with Water Street.
History
Terraced house of probable C19 origin with later C19 detail (marked on 1834 map but with late C19 detail). Commercial premises on ground floor, Occupied in 1926 by E. B. Rees dentist and Miss E.M. Rawcliffe, confectioner, in mid C20 by P.D. Lewis, decorators, and in 2002 by laundrette. The timber bracketed eaves cornice appears elsewhere in the street, e.g on Nos 38-40.
Exterior
House in informal terrace, with ground floor shop, painted lined stucco with slate gabled roof, ridge higher than those of either side, and with bracketed wooden eaves cornice. Square panels between brackets. Three-storey 3-window range, upper 2 floors with broad plate glass sashes with marginal glazing bars. Ground floor has plinth, house doorway to left, and to right shop front with recessed half-glazed door and blanked overlight at right in casing of part-fluted pilasters with roundels and paired brackets each side of plain fascia. House door is 2-panelled with coloured glass overlight reading ''Hamilton House''. Mosaic on floor of shop doorway reading ''P.D. Lewis House Decorator''.
Reason for designation
Included as a late Georgian style terraced house with later C19 shopfront.
Nearby in the register
- The Golden LionCommercialunder 1 mi
- Arcade HouseCommercialunder 1 mi
- 105 Lammas StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- Railings, gates and gatepiers to Capel Heol Awst and Sunday SchoolReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.