Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
The King's Arms
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
- No class recorded
- Date of designation
- 18 June 2004
- Community
- Llandovery
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.99421, -3.79217
- Cadw reference
- 82906
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 on E side of junction with Gelli Deg.
History
Inn of mid C19 character. The Kings Arms is rated in 1810 as an inn but possibly closed in the 1850s and 1860s, but it reappears in the 1875 and later directories. Sold to Wm Hancock & Co of Cardiff, brewers, in 1884.
Exterior
Detached symmetrical house of 2 storeys and 3 bays. Slate gabled roof with roughcast clad chimney stacks to left and right. Close bracketed eaves with small brackets, many missing. Roughcast with painted stucco dressings and lettering in relief: KINGS' ARMS arranged either side of centre window. Stucco plinth and angle strips, window surrounds with shoulders and vermiculated keystones and 4-pane horned sashes. Steps up to central panelled door with plain rectangular overlight in panelled reveal. Timber doorcase with pilasters and cornice under flat hood supported by wrought iron scrolls.
Left hand return painted roughcast with C20 attic window top left. Right hand return painted roughcast and small C20 attic casement window top left.
To rear are C20 extensions.
Interior
Interior not inspected.
Reason for designation
Included as substantial building in late Georgian style dating from earlier to mid C19.
Nearby in the register
- Telephone Call-box by W wall of King's Arms innNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Ty-Ficar PritchardDomesticunder 1 mi
- Britannia HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- 38 High StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.