Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Portland House
Llandovery, Carmarthenshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Llandovery, Carmarthenshire, designated on 18 June 2004.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 18 June 2004
- Community
- Llandovery
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.99483, -3.79611
- Cadw reference
- 82898
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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
Situated the second house S of narrow way to Victoria Street opposite end of Garden Lane.
History
Earlier C19 house part of a row built up on land owned until 1880s by the Llwynywormwood estate. Of later C19 external character, with shopfront like that on No 13 but window altered in C20. Recorded as owned c1900 by Rees James and occuppied by John Davies saddler and bootmaker.
Exterior
Terraced house and shop, similar to No 13 and to same roofline as Nos 11-17. Three bays and 2 storeys with slate gabled roof, end chimneys and deep eaves. Painted roughcast facade with stucco dressings, sill band, long and short quoins to left and right to 1st floor, and channelled piers to ground floor. Plinth. Windows have vermiculated keys to shouldered surrounds to upper floor and left hand ground floor openings, all with plate-glass 2-pane horned sash windows. Window bays are offset slightly to left.
Central house door and shop front to right in shared casing of 3 pilasters, narrow frieze and cornice, and flat top (blind-box over shopfront). House door is C20 with plain rectangular overlight round, shop to right has earlier C20 half-glazed recessed shop door to left with plain rectangular overlight, and panelled soffit and left reveal. The door has a fielded panel and carved segmental curved panel at base of plate glass pane with cambered head. Shop has single pane canted in to door and plate glass front pane with brass framing and angle shaft.
Interior
Altered interior to shop.
Reason for designation
Included as a good example of a terraced house with later C19 detail including good surviving shopfront.
Nearby in the register
- Croft HouseCommercialunder 1 mi
- Trafalgar HouseCommercialunder 1 mi
- 11 Stone StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- Darwen HouseCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.