Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Gosen House
Llandovery, Carmarthenshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 18 June 2004
- Community
- Llandovery
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.99509, -3.79656
- Cadw reference
- 82883
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 1860 "41. Caermathen." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Situated the fourth house in the terrace N of junction with Garden Lane.
History
Terraced house in row Nos 12-18, identical in detail to No 16, but with shopfront detail shared with Nos 12-14. The row is first recorded in the 1830s, No 18 ocupied by S Davies grocer and tallow chandler in 1844, then D M Protheroe, grocer, draper and ironmonger. Recorded as owned by J Morgan in 1846 and 1866, occupied by Rees Bishop grocer. In 1892 occupied by William Evans tailor & stationer. Shown in 1936 photograph as W T Price, newsagent and Registrar.
Exterior
Terraced house in row Nos 12-18, similar in detail to No 16. Three storeys, 2 bays with slate gabled roof with red brick chimney stack to right and deep eaves. Painted stucco with long and short quoins to right (matching those on left of No 16), 1st floor sill band and upper storey windows similar to those of No. 16 in moulded shouldered surrounds with keystones. Smaller windows to top floor, all sashes with marginal glazing bars. Ground floor has overall shopfront with panelled pilasters to left and right similar to those on Nos 12-14, (a pair between door and shop window now gone), 4 scrolled brackets in fascia, and shelf over. Left hand C20 door and right hand 3-pane shop window. Right hand end wall has raised chimney breast.
Interior
Cast iron supporting column visible inside shop window.
Reason for designation
Included as part of 3-storey terrace Nos 12-18, with good surviving C19 stucco detail and late C19 shopfront.
Nearby in the register
- Court HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Gloucester HouseCommercialunder 1 mi
- Bradford HouseCommercialunder 1 mi
- Darwen HouseCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.